An exclusive one-week exhibition at Adelphi. Two masterpieces by French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) will be on display in the Adele and Herbert J. Klapper Center for Fine Arts, Cambridge Avenue entrance, Garden City, NY. These well-known paintings are a generous loan from the Adele and Herbert J. Klapper collection. The exhibition will run only from Saturday, April 9 to Wednesday, April 13, 2011.
On view will be L'Escalier a Vetheuil (1881) and Le Palais Ducal (1908). L'Escalier a Vetheuil is one of Monet’s garden paintings from his home in the small agricultural town of Vetheuil, France, on the river Seine some 50 miles from Paris.
“A stone stairway surrounded by flowers leads to an asymmetrical garden ablaze with light, and overflowing with an abundance of sunflowers, hollyhock, nasturtiums, and other natural flowers which appear to dance free of the structure and belie Monet’s meticulous arrangement of the setting.” (The Herbert J. Klapper Collection. Beadleston Gallery. New York: 2002) Le Palais Ducal is Monet’s celebrated last architectural painting. It is from his first visit to Venice in 1908 when he was nearly seventy. The rhythmic patterns of Monet’s brushstrokes in this piece record fleeting impressions of light and color across the surface of Venice’s canals, while retaining the integrity of the monumental structure.
