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Monet exhibit at Currier Museum of Art to showcase 4 paintings

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
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Claude Monet, ‘The Bridge at Bougival,’ 1869, oil on canvas, 25 3/4 in. x 36 3/8 in. Museum Purchase: Currier Funds, 1949.1. Currier Museum of Art image

 

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – A beloved Claude Monet painting has returned to its home at New Hampshire’s Currier Museum of Art after an eight-month tour, and will be back on display, along with three others that show the artist’s evolution.

The exhibit “Monet: Pathways to Impressionism” opens July 1 and runs until Nov. 13 at the Manchester museum.

Monet’s 1869 landscape, The Bridge at Bougival, was acquired by the museum in 1949. The painting is recognized as one of only a handful of early pictures that foreshadow Monet’s development of impressionism.

It has recently been shown at major exhibitions in Houston, Fort Worth, Texas and San Francisco.

Three other Monet masterpieces are in the exhibition, each representing a milestone in the artist’s career, including the Kimbell Art Museum’s stunning 3-by-5-foot canvas, La Pointe de la Hève at Low Tide (1865), the painting that launched Monet’s career at the 1865 Paris Salon.

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