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ArtSeptember 2007 News from the Berkshires by Karen Wilkin On “The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings” at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It’s hard to believe that there’s anything left to discover about Claude Monet. Among those much loved, much studied, and much exhibited perennial box-office favorites, the Impressionists, he may be the most loved, most studied, and most exhibited. Not only is he well represented, often in some depth, in the permanent collection of just about any major museum, but, in the last two decades or so, there have also been dozens of special exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and occasionally in Asia wholly about Monet or at least featuring him: surveys of his evolution, studies of his late work and his series, examinations of his early efforts and his still lifes, explorations of his paintings of Italy and of London, investigations of his relationship to his colleagues, and more. This spring alone, four exhibitions were devoted to Monet internationally. One of them, on view at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusett ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 26 September 2007, on page 42 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/news-from-the-berkshires-3597
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