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New exhibition on the gardens, reopening of the Monet Foundation: a green Sunday in Giverny

2021-05-30T20:49:58.411Z


In Normandy, in Giverny, the Claude Monet Foundation, which reopened on May 19, already welcomes people, and the Musée des Impressionnistes presents


Cross the Seine at Vernon.

Take some fresh air in the Eure.

So close to Paris and already Normandy.

A desire to leave, here and now, big blue and big green.

Because Giverny is Claude Monet and his water lilies, the Museum of the Impressionists, but also its hills and its hiking trails that lead up to panoramic viewpoints over the valleys of the Seine and the Epte, its small tributary.

“You have to walk in the hills here,” smiles Gilbert Vahé, the former gardener of the Monet Foundation, who participated in the restoration of the painter's flowered and wooded paradise when it was so damaged, in the 1970s. C 'was at the time a wasteland, as he recounts in his book “Monet's garden in Giverny, the story of a rebirth”. Giverny did not then resemble this impressionist cocoon which has been welcoming fans again since May 19: “At the time, 80% of the inhabitants of Vernon did not even know that Monet had lived here. We restored everything from the archives and his correspondence with the suppliers, ”says the retiree, who still lives in the village.

Right now, the irises are blooming, the roses are starting to bloom.

The first flowers of the water lilies are usually expected at the beginning of June, but with the weather for the last few weeks, Gilbert Vahé thinks that we will have to be patient.

Either way, Monet's gardens are already taken by storm.

You have to surf from one site to another to find more slots this weekend, accessible especially if you are early risers, at 9:30 am.

Breakfast in Giverny, why not?

"Images of happiness, but unexpected"

Because a garden can be savored, it can be smelled, like a coffee. “It is always the reflection of an individual, of a soul. Monet's is the perfect proof of this. He was not helped by an architect, he designed it throughout the 43 years he spent here, ”adds Gilbert Vahé. Talking about an intimate garden as a private diary, we perceive it in a masterly way in the exhibition “Côté jardin, de Monet à Bonnard”, at the Musée des Impressionnistes Giverny. Here, the reservation is no problem, all slots available.

It is time to rush to this place on the hillside, with its meadow, hedges and monochrome flower beds. The exhibition of a hundred paintings, drawings and prints avoids simple prettiness. "I imagined it during confinement in March 2020. What would we want when leaving this period? To see images of happiness, but unexpected, the garden paintings of the Nabis, less known than those of the Impressionists, ”explains Cyrille Sciama, director of the museum, who has obtained large loans, such as sublime paintings by Pissarro from private collections.

The Impressionist Museum has obtained loans from sublime paintings by Pissaro (1830 - 1903) such as “Soleil levant à Éragny” (1894; oil on canvas, 38.3 x 46 cm, Olivier Senn Collection. Donation HélèneSenn-Foulds, 2004. Le Havre, André Malraux Museum of Modern Art). MuMa Le Havre / Florian Kleinefenn

Among the Nabis masterpieces, this school of painters influenced by Japonism and the decorative arts, Vuillard's "Pink Bench", already almost an abstract painting, this pink rectangle as if to take stock in the middle of an immensity yellow and green.

The last paintings in the exhibition, “La Seine à Vernon” by Bonnard, painted in 1915, or “Water lilies with willow branches” by Monet, produced the following year, when the two friendly artists saw each other regularly. inspire landscapes that are a few meters away.

From the green and blue of pigments to those of the hills and the river.

“Garden side, from Monet to Bonnard”

, exhibition at

the Impressionist Museum in Giverny

(Eure), until November 1st.

Claude Monet Foundation

, house and gardens open until November 1st.

To read:

“Monet's garden in Giverny, story of a rebirth”

by Gilbert Vahé, (Ed Maison et jardins Claude Monet-Giverny - Gourcuff / Gradenigo), 286 p., € 39.

Source: leparis

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