Two Claude Monet paintings will go on display in Hong Kong this spring as part of a free exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art. Running from 24 April to 29 July, the show places Monet’s garden scenes in a wider cross-cultural look at how gardens shaped art, taste, and daily life.
Visitors can see Monet’s “Water Lily Pond” (1900) and “Water Lilies” (1906) at The Special Gallery on the 2/F. Both works are from the Art Institute of Chicago and will be presented in Hong Kong at no entry cost.
The exhibition, titled Blooming: The Art of Gardens in East and West, uses garden culture as its central thread, moving from landscape design to the way people spent time in gardens and how artists translated those spaces into paintings and objects.
Beyond Monet, the exhibition brings together 106 selected paintings and artefacts drawn from the Palace Museum in Beijing, the Palace of Versailles in France, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. The selection spans royal and scholarly garden traditions, including links to figures such as China’s Emperor Qianlong and France’s King Louis XIV, alongside other artists who explored garden themes across different periods and styles.
To know more about the exhibition, visit www.hk.art.museum.
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