"Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism" by Daniel Wildenstein, with Introduction by Philippe de Montebello and James N. Wood, published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978, First Edition. Published on the Occasion of the exhibition "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism" organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with the St. Louis Art Museum.

Dust jacket, hard boards, green cloth with gold lettering on front board and spine [a little foxing]; large format: 9" x 10.1/4"; 180 pages on high quality glossy paper, fully illustrated, very good condition.

"Over the past fifty years the luxuriant gardens at Monet's house in Giverny slowly perished and ran wild. Weeds choked the garden paths and flowerbeds; termites feasted on the celebrated Japanese footbridge; sludge invaded the water-lily pond. Finally, the gardens were closed to visitors. Yet this spring Monet's carefully designed and lovingly cultivated gardens- which provided the greatest single source of his work for over forty years- will be reopened to the public, restored to their rampant glory. The transformation was the work of Lila Acheson Wallace, who has made miracles in a dozen realms of the world of art. In this case she worked her magic through a generous grant to the Inistitut de France, the administrators of the grounds at Giverny. It is to celebrate the new flowering of the gardens and to honor the extraordinary Mrs. Wallace that the Museum has organized the exhibition Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism.

Daniel Wildenstein, art historian and publisher, has been a member of the Paris Academie des Beaux-Arts since 1971. He began managing the Wildenstein Galleries in New York, London, and Tokyo in 1939, and later assumed sole responsibility for them. He has also headed two art journals of international reputation: "Arts" (1956-1962) and, since 1963, the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts." Through the Wildenstein Institute, he has enhanced the prestige of French culture by supporting numerous art exhibitions. He edits and directs the publication of "catalogues raisonnes" of 18th, 19th, and 20th century artists; a renowned authority on the Impressionist painters, he is the author of the Manet and Monet catalogues in particular.

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