Monet and London review: This will never happen again – don’t miss it

Florence Hallett | iNews | 26th September 2024

These days London’s air is clean but Monet’s affection for the city formed when it was dirty. In three separate visits, he painted the “delicious” winter fogs that, when combined with the “billowing filth” of industry, produced irresistibly beautiful light, His studies of central London and the Thames were finished back in Giverny and “clearly relate” to his famous waterlilies. These paintings are “a revelation beyond exaggeration” and a testament to the “elastic nature of [Monet’s] mind”.