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Monet, Munch Headline the Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar

Monet, Munch Headline the Tate’s 2027 Exhibition Calendar

Published by José Betancourt

The Tate’s four national museums—Tate Modern and Tate Britain, in London, plus branches in Liverpool and St Ives—have announced their exhibition programming for 2027. One of the more high-profile shows is “Monet: Painting Time,” Tate Modern’s first solo show dedicated to the French Impressionist. “Painting Time” is co-organized with Paris’s Musée de l’Orangerie (where it opens on September 30, 2026) and will include several of Monet’s instantly recognizable paintings of water lilies, as well as loans from international museums and private collections. It will be on view at Tate Modern following the Orangerie, from February 25 to June 27, 2027. Related Articles Also coming up next year at Tate Modern is a multimedia installation in the museum’s cavernous Turbine Hall space dedicated to David Hockney’s opera designs (both sets and costumes) from the past half-century; a survey of some 200 works by Nalini Malani (July 1–January 3); and a show of Edvard Munch’s emotionally resonant “soul paintings” (November 11–April 23). Tate Britain will also have a David Hockney show next fall (the British artist turns …

Sotheby’s to Sell Works by Monet, Signac, Degas, and Léger in Spring

Sotheby’s to Sell Works by Monet, Signac, Degas, and Léger in Spring

Published by José Betancourt

A quartet of masterpieces by Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Edgar Degas, and Fernand Léger will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s London this spring. The paintings are part of the house’s Modern and Contemporary evening sale on March 4 and have a combined high estimate of £24 million. Monet’s Maison de Jardinier (1884) spearheads the group. It was painted during the artist’s ten-week sojourn on the Italian riviera and conveys the famous garden of Francesco Moreno in Bordighera. Sotheby’s has slapped an £8.5 million high estimate on the work. Paintings from Monet’s trip to Italy in 1884 rarely hit the market and several of the finest examples are held in museums including the Musée d’Orsay, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The other three paintings are Signac’s Marseille, Le Port (1934), Léger’s Les Hommes dans la Ville (1919)—both have a £6 million high estimate—and Degas’ Scène de Ballet (circa 1885), high estimate £3.5 million. “This collection represents a powerfully concentrated capsule of the history of …

Swatch x Guggenheim Releases Watches Inspired by Pollock, Degas, Monet, and Klee

Swatch x Guggenheim Releases Watches Inspired by Pollock, Degas, Monet, and Klee

Published by José Betancourt

Swiss watch company Swatch is the latest brand to partner with a major museum on a product collection. On Thursday, it announced the Swatch x Guggenheim Collection, featuring watches that translate pieces from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. The artists featured include Edgar Degas, Paul Klee, Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock. The pieces are the latest in Swatch’s larger Art Journey series, which launched in 2023. As part of the series, the company has partnered with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Jean-Michel Basquiat estate, the Rene Magritte estate, and others. Swatch has also partnered with the Guggenheim since the 1990s. Related Articles “This collaboration was inspired by a long-standing shared belief between Swatch and the Guggenheim: art should be accessible, lived with, and experienced beyond museum walls,” Swatch’s CEO Vivian Stauffer told WWD via email. “By making iconic artworks wearable and playful, Swatch removes the distance that can sometimes exist between people and cultural …

Pictures of Venetian Palazzo Painted by Monet Up for Sale

Pictures of Venetian Palazzo Painted by Monet Up for Sale

Published by Jenni Sidey

A Venetian palazzo painted by Claude Monet—with a riderless gondola floating in a fog of coolish hues—is up for sale via Christie’s International Real Estate. The location is on a premier stretch of the Grand Canal, and the price is “available upon request” (which did not meet with a response by press time).   Features include a boat ramp/boat dock, courtyard, terrace, and garden, and the provenance is rich: Near the end of the 15th century, the so-called Palazzo Dario was remodeled from an earlier Gothic palace to the liking of Giovanni Dario, a Venetian senate secretary and diplomat who negotiated a peace agreement and received money as a reward. As the Christie’s listing reads: “The magnificent façade, decorated with circular polychrome marble inlays, is made of Pietra d’Istria, and reflects the oriental influence, acquired by Dario during his long travels in Egypt and Middle East, then translated in the Veneto taste with the help of the architect.” (The architect being Pietro Lombardo.) Over time, Palazzo Dario has caught the eye of many a Venetian …