Monet’s Venice Retrospective
The de Young in San Francisco has opened a major Monet Venice presentation — critics say it maps Monet’s creative process in Venice and the coverage went live March 24. (theguardian.com) Social buzz is loud — an @_ArtMuseum post of four Monet paintings scored 2,781 likes, 610 reposts, 15,137 bookmarks and 36,370 views, and Japan’s Oyamazaki Sanso Museum marked its 30th anniversary by displaying all its Monet holdings (113 likes, 11,821 views). (x.com) (x.com)
The de Young presentation is a co‑organized loan exhibition from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Brooklyn Museum, on view at the de Young from March 21 through July 26, 2026, and billed as the first dedicated exploration of Monet’s Venetian cityscapes since 1912. (ticketing.famsf.org) The show is co‑curated by Lisa Small (Senior Curator of European Art, Brooklyn Museum) and Melissa E. Buron (Director of Collections and Chief Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum), whose credits the organizers cite in announcing the project. (brooklynmuseum.org) Organizers say the presentation reunites more than 20 of Monet’s 37 Venice canvases and is anchored by two named masterpieces: Brooklyn’s The Doge’s Palace and the Fine Arts Museums’ The Grand Canal, Venice. (artdaily.cc) More than 100 paintings, prints, watercolors, photographs and ephemera are on view overall, with loans listed from major institutions including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Musée Marmottan Monet (Paris), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. (artdaily.cc) The exhibition opened in Brooklyn first (October 11, 2025–February 1, 2026) before traveling to San Francisco, where the Brooklyn run brought together 19 Venetian canvases as part of the larger, multisite exhibition plan. (visitbrooklyn.nyc) The de Young is selling a full exhibition catalogue with more than 100 color illustrations, and its museum shop lists the catalogue alongside timed‑entry ticketing for the March 21–July 26 presentation. (shop.famsf.org) Separately in Japan, the Asahi Group Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art (Oyamazaki Sanso) is marking its 30th anniversary by exhibiting all eight Monet paintings in its collection together—on view from March 20, 2026, through April 11, 2027. (30th.asahigroup-oyamazaki.com)
