Monet's Venice reunited
San Francisco’s de Young Museum has reunited Claude Monet’s late Venice series — dozens of luminous water‑and‑light studies he produced at age 68 — in a rare exhibition, shared with a museum photo on X. (x.com) The reunion has already sparked online buzz among Impressionist fans and collectors. (x.com)
Monet and Venice is on view at the de Young from March 21 through July 26, 2026. (ticketing.famsf.org)) The exhibition features more than 100 paintings, prints, watercolors, photographs, and related material and brings together more than twenty of Monet’s Venetian views from public and private collections worldwide. (ticketing.famsf.org)) Scholars note Monet produced 37 paintings of Venice; 19 were included in the Brooklyn presentation and two additional loans were scheduled to travel to the de Young for the San Francisco run. (news.artnet.com)) San Francisco’s presentation includes the four Venetian canvases once owned by collectors Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, works the sisters later bequeathed to what is now National Museum Cardiff. (artdaily.cc)) The show was co-curated by Lisa Small and Melissa Buron and highlights two anchor works from the host institutions—The Doge’s Palace (Brooklyn) and The Grand Canal, Venice (FAMSF), the latter recorded as a 1960 gift from Osgood Hooker. (brooklynmuseum.org))
