Exhibition debut for three Monets

Among the 62 major works on view in the Claude Monet survey currently appearing at New York's Wildenstein & Company [through June 15] are three canvases that have never before been publicly displayed. The largest and most striking of the trio is the radiant 1867 composition Adolphe Monet in the Garden of "Le Coteau" at Sainte-Adresse that had been in the Monet family collection for many years and is lent anonymously. In the work, the painter's father appears on the far right, reading a newspaper under a shady Claude Monet, Adolphe tree while a flowering garden shines in the Monet in the Garden of "Le background. Also making their public debut Coteau" at Sainte-Adresse, are two lush landscapes, Through the Trees, 1867. fie de La Grande Jatte (1878) and Villas at Bordighera (1884).

Curated by Wildenstein vice president Joseph Baillio, the exhibition, whose $10 admission charge benefits the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, also contains a number of iconic Monet works, such as The Seine at Argenteuil (1874), Gare Saint-Lazare, the Normandy Train (1877), and The Flowering Arches, Giverny (1913), on loan from museums and private collections around the world. Also on view are examples of Monet's correspondence, photographs and other documentary material. Organized over a three-year period by gallery president Guy Wildenstein, the exhibition is a tribute to his late father Daniel Wildenstein (1917-2001), a dealer and Monet scholar whose 1974 multivolume Monet catalogue raisonne remains the definitive study of the artist's life and work, and to Katia Granoff (1895-1989), the Russian-born dealer and poet who did much to further the recognition and understanding of Monet's late works. The show is accompanied by a 340-page scholarly catalogue.

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