Monet and Venice

Monet and Venice is the first English-language catalog dedicated to Claude Monet’s luminous Venetian paintings since their debut at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in Paris in 1912. Published in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this volume reunites many of Monet’s iconic views of Venice for the first time in over a century.

Anchored by two masterpieces, The Doge’s Palace and The Grand Canal, Venice from the collections of the organizing museums, the catalog explores Monet’s late-career fascination with the interplay of water, light, and architecture. His Venetian works, suffused with mist and radiant color, reflect a deeply ecological vision of the city as a fragile convergence of nature and culture.

The book features newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, including André Dombrowski and Richard Thomson, as well as maps of Monet’s viewpoints and lush reproductions of the paintings. It offers fresh insight into how Monet transformed the centuries-old tradition of Venetian landscape painting through his modern, atmospheric style.

This catalog is an essential addition for collectors, scholars, and admirers of Impressionism, and a tribute to Monet’s enduring ability to reimagine the world through light.