Current ExhibitionsSpecial Exhibition
Monet: The Late Waterscapes

Dates

Saturday, 5 October 2024 - Tuesday, 11 February 2025

Hours

9:30 am – 5:30 pm
Fridays and Saturdays during exhibition period 9:30 am – 9:00 pm
Admission ends 30 mins. before closing time

Closed

Mondays, 15 October, 5 November,
28 December, 2024 -1 January, 2025 and 14 January（Opens 14 October, 4 November, 2024, 13 January, 2025, 10 February and 11 February）

Venue

Special Exhibition Wing

Admission Fees

Adults 2,300 yen, college students 1,400 yen, high school students 1,000 yen

Advance tickets
Adults 2,100 yen, college students 1,300 yen, high school students 900 yen

• * Admission is free for junior high school students and under.
• * Disabled visitors admitted free of charge, with one attendant.
• * College students, high school students and disabled visitors must show their relevant student ID, proof of age or disability status document upon entry to the museum.
• * Students and faculty members at National Museum of Art Campus Member institutions may view this exhibition on specially priced tickets (students = 1,200 yen, faculty members = 2,100 yen). These tickets are available at the National Museum of Western Art Ticket Office.
• * Free entrance to the exhibition for high school students, 12 December (Thu.) - 27 December (Fri.), 2024 and 2 January (Thu.) - 17 January (Fri.), 2025, upon presenting student ID.
• * You can also see the permanent exhibition on the same day of viewing this exhibition.
• * Advance tickets are on sale from Wednesday, 12 June to Friday, 4 October 2024.

Official online tickets

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Organized by

The National Museum of Western Art, Musée Marmottan Monet, Nippon Television Network Corporation, The Yomiuri Shimbun, BS Nippon Corporation

Supported by

Embassy of France / French Institute of Japan

With the special
sponsorship of

TAISEI CORPORATION

With the sponsorship of

Dai-ichi Life Group, MITSUMURA PRINTING CO., LTD., Sompo Holdings, Inc.

With the cooperation of

Nippon Cargo Airlines Co., Ltd.,
Nippon Express Co., Ltd.,
TOKYO METROPOLITAN TELEVISION BROADCASTING Corporation,
TOKYO FM Broadcasting Co., Ltd., Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc.,
The Western Art Foundation

With the planning
cooperation of

NIPPON TELEVISION NETWORK EUROPE B.V.

Traveling Venue

Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
Friday, 7 March – Sunday, 8 June 2025

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art
Saturday, 21 June – Monday, 15 September 2025

Official website

https://www.ntv.co.jp/monet2024/

In 1890, the year he turned 50, the leading Impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840–1926) purchased an estate in the Norman hamlet of Giverny and made it his final home. A few years later, he created a “water garden” featuring a pond with water lilies. The pond proved to be the artist’s greatest source of inspiration, continuously occupying his mind from then on. The theme of the present exhibition is the art of Monet’s later years, centering on his “Water Lilies.”

Monet faced many difficulties during these years, including the loss of family members, a serious vision impairment, and the tragedy of the First World War. But nothing could deter him from his “Grandes Décorations,” a scheme for covering the walls of a room with huge canvases depicting the surface of the water-lily pond. The exhibition focuses on the many large “Water Lilies” he created in pursuit of this project. Because Monet was averse to disclosing unfinished projects, he kept most of these works in his studio until the end of his life. The only person allowed to take away one of the large water-lily decorative panels was the Japanese industrialist and collector Matsukata Kōjirō (1866–1950). He eventually collected more than 30 pieces by Monet, including those he purchased directly from the artist when visiting Giverny in 1921. They are today among the highlights of the collection of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.

This exhibition represents the largest gathering of Monet’s “Water Lilies” ever seen in Japan. The 64 paintings include some 50 items from the collection of the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, which are shown alongside works from the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo and other Japanese collections.

Exhibition Checklist (PDF file, about 1.39MB)
Due to unforeseen circumstances, No. 19 is not displayed.