Monet: Painting Time opens on 25 February 2027, with loans from Paris, Tokyo and the National Gallery and a Seine view now being cleaned.
Next year Tate Modern will stage its first exhibition devoted to Claude Monet. Monet: Painting Time opens on 25 February 2027 and closes on 27 June. At its centre is a group of 20 water lily paintings.
According to Tate, the show is built around the way Monet explored the passing of time. He did this through motifs he came back to over and over, from the cycles of nature to the symbols of industry and technology.
Monet began the Water Lilies series in 1899. Canvases from it will travel to London from several lenders, among them Paris’s Musée Marmottan Monet and Tokyo’s Artizon Museum. The National Gallery is also parting with The Water-Lily Pond (1899) for the run. Juliet Bingham, who is curating the exhibition and is a curator of international art at Tate, said Tate was “very grateful” to the National Gallery for the loan.
Tate’s own conservators are treating The Seine at Port-Villez (1894), a painting from the collection. They are taking off layers of yellowed varnish that were applied after Monet finished it. Speaking at a briefing on 16 September, Tate Modern’s assistant curator of international art, Genevieve Barton, said removing the varnish had uncovered “the artist’s sense of luminosity, which has not been seen in decades”.
The show opens with a room titled Modernity and the Acceleration of Time, which looks at how the railways spread across France in the 19th century. Here visitors will find the canvases Monet produced at Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris in early 1877. They include Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Later rooms go by the names Series and Moments and Cycles and Durations. They follow Monet back to subjects he painted many times, such as grain stacks and Rouen Cathedral. One of the cathedral pictures on show dates from 1892. Bingham said she wants visitors to take their time in front of each work and become “deeply engaged” with it.
Monet “still continues to influence contemporary artists”, Bingham said, and one room is given over to that legacy. It features a 2020 video piece, (D)’Après Monet, by the French artist Ange Leccia.
Morgan Stanley is among the show’s sponsors. Anthropic, the AI company, is also backing the exhibition.
Monet: Painting Time opens on 25 February 2027 and closes on 27 June 2027.
Yes. Tate Modern has never before put on a show devoted to Monet.
Twenty water lily paintings, with loans from Paris's Musée Marmottan Monet and Tokyo's Artizon Museum, plus The Water-Lily Pond (1899) from the National Gallery. The show also includes his Gare Saint-Lazare railway scenes, grain stacks and Rouen Cathedral paintings.
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