The Monet is gone!
Claude Monet's 'Waterloo Bridge, Effet de Soleil', painted in 1903, is one of five major works currently on loan to the Winnipeg Art Gallery from the McMaster Museum of Art. The Winnipeg Art Gallery is celebrating it's 100th year and is Canada's oldest civic art gallery.
McMaster’s Monet is not on campus, but there’s no cause for alarm.
The Museum of Art has lent five major paintings, including one by Claude Monet, to the Winnipeg Art Gallery for its 100th anniversary celebrations.
The Winnipeg Art Gallery is Canada’s oldest civic art gallery and the five works – The Man of Sorrows and Mater Dolorosa, by Albrecht Bouts; Voiliers au Mouillage sur la Seine, à Argenteuil, by Gustave Caillebotte; Waterloo Bridge, Effet de Soleil, by Claude Monet, and Robert, 9th Baron Petre, Demonstrating the Use of an Écorché Figure to His Son, Robert Edward, by George Romney – will join 95 others in the exhibition 100 Masters: Only in Canada.
“We are honoured to be part of the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s centenary celebration and delighted to have not one, but five works from McMaster’s collection selected for this landmark exhibition,” says the Museum of Art’s director and chief curator Carol Podedworny. “McMaster’s loaned paintings span the breadth of our European collections, from the year 1500 to 1900. We like to think of our collection as one of the best in the country and this “best of” project highlights it as a rich source of research, loan and exhibition prospects.”
The exhibition runs until August 18 and will feature works by Rembrandt, Gainsborough, Van Gogh, Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Warhol and more—all borrowed from 28 galleries across Canada plus the Walker Art Centre and the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
