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‘What a fascinating challenge for an artist’: how Monet captured Venice in his twilight years

A major exhibition at San Francisco's de Young Museum, titled 'Monet and Venice,' brings together over 100 works, focusing on the two dozen paintings Claude Monet created during his only visit to the city in 1908. The show contextualizes his Venetian output with works by contemporaries like J.M.W. Turner, John Singer Sargent, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, revealing that the trip was almost cancelled and was initially planned as a brief holiday.

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Swatch has announced a new collaboration with the Guggenheim, releasing a collection of watches featuring artworks from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The collection includes designs based on works by Edgar Degas, Paul Klee, Claude Monet, and Jackson Pollock, and is part of Swatch's ongoing Art Journey series, which has previously partnered with institutions like the Museum of Modern Art and the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

How Claude Monet’s reluctant sojourn reignited his career

A new exhibition, "Monet and Venice," has opened at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. It centers on the pivotal 1908 trip to Venice that the 68-year-old Claude Monet was initially reluctant to take, showcasing over 20 of the luminous, atmospheric paintings of the city he produced there. The show also includes over 100 related items, featuring works by Canaletto, Turner, Sargent, and Whistler, as well as photographs and books, to contextualize Monet's Venetian achievement.