San Giorgio Maggiore (Monet series)

San Giorgio Maggiore in the collection of Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Lockton Collection, 70.76, discovernewfields.org

Claude Monet painted a series of paintings of the island-monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. They were begun in 1908 during the artist's only visit to the city. One of the best known is San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk, which exists in two versions.

Monet completed his paintings of Venice at home in France,[1] and in 1912 showed them in Paris. Buyers included the Welsh collector Gwendoline Davies, who bought three paintings.

A painting by Monet, described as being of San Giorgio Maggiore, was seized in July of 2016 by Swiss officials on behalf of U.S. authorities. The owner, Jho Low, embezzled funds from 1Malaysia Development BHD., a government investment fund. He had purchased the painting for $35 million.[2]

In 2018 the National Gallery in London held an exhibition "Monet and Architecture" which reunited nine of the Venice paintings.[3] These included three paintings of San Giorgio Maggiore apparently painted from Monet's hotel on the Grand Canal. They came from galleries in Cardiff (National Museum Cardiff) and Indianapolis (Indianapolis Museum of Art) and one from a private collection.

See also

Monet also used San Giorgio Maggiore as a view-point for The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore.

References

  1. ↑ "The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore". Retrieved 2018-07-16.
  2. ↑ Crow, Kelly; Letzing, John (2016-07-21). "In the 1MDB Net, an Art-World Whale". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
  3. ↑ Cumming, Laura. "Monet and Architecture review". The Observer. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
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