About the Book:

Monet's Venice paintings are high points in his lifelong engagement with the interplay of water and light. Monet and Venice anchored by two masterworks from the collections of Brooklyn and San Francisco, The Doge s Palace and The Grand Canal, Venice will be the first exhibition and English-language publication dedicated to this significant suite of paintings since their Parisian debut at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in 1912. Monet keenly felt the burden of influence in a city that had so often been depicted and had long been an icon of waning, fragile beauty.

About the Author:

Lisa Small is an American art historian and museum curator. She is a curator of Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, and most widely known for her 2014 blockbuster exhibition, Killer Heels.