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Art

French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A remarkable exhibition featuring Monet, Renoir, and more
National Gallery of Victoria
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ABR Arts • 01 July 2021
Art

French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A remarkable exhibition featuring Monet, Renoir, and more
National Gallery of Victoria
by •
ABR Arts • 01 July 2021
Claude Monet, French 1840–1926, Meadow with poplars, c. 1875, oil on canvas, 54.6 x 65.4 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball Photography © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All Rights Reserved)
Claude Monet, French 1840–1926, Meadow with poplars, c. 1875, oil on canvas, 54.6 x 65.4 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball Photography © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All Rights Reserved)

Given that the NGV has postponed Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2020: Pierre Bonnard until 2023 due to the pandemic, and that international borders will remain closed for the foreseeable future, it is a relief that this major exhibition has gone ahead, notwithstanding a month-long delay because of the latest lockdown. We are indeed fortunate to see Impressionist works from a renowned international museum like Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. French Impressionism, an exhibition of more than one hundred works, features Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Sisley, Morisot, and Caillebotte. It includes seventy-nine works never before shown in Australia.

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Felicity Chaplin

Felicity Chaplin is Lecturer in European Languages at Monash University. She is the author of two books, Charlotte Gainsbourg: transnational and transmedia stardom (Manchester University Press, 2020) and La Parisienne in cinema: between art and life (Manchester University Press, 2017), and is a contributor to the forthcoming edited collection Refocus: The films of François Ozon (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Felicity has written extensively on cinema, stardom, celebrity, fashion, French female identity, and cultural histories of Paris. Her work appears in Australian Book Review, Australian Journal of French Studies, Celebrity Studies, Metro, Screening the Past, and Senses of Cinema.

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Felicity Chaplin

Felicity Chaplin is Lecturer in European Languages at Monash University. She is the author of two books, Charlotte Gainsbourg: transnational and transmedia stardom (Manchester University Press, 2020) and La Parisienne in cinema: between art and life (Manchester University Press, 2017), and is a contributor to the forthcoming edited collection Refocus: The films of François Ozon (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). Felicity has written extensively on cinema, stardom, celebrity, fashion, French female identity, and cultural histories of Paris. Her work appears in Australian Book Review, Australian Journal of French Studies, Celebrity Studies, Metro, Screening the Past, and Senses of Cinema.

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  • I can truly resonate with the sentiments expressed by the writer. This is beautiful art and a great way to enhance one’s knowledge of the artists and their works from French Impressionism. I loved the immersive experience of witnessing it firsthand at NGV.
    Posted by Aradhana
    08 July 2021

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