A triumphant comeback

Impressionist art

On March 18, Bund One Art Museum kicked off its new exhibition of 61 original paintings by Claude Monet and other impressionist masters. The exhibition marked the debut of 60 of the artworks in Shanghai, according to Xie Dingwei, president of the Tix-Media Co Ltd and the founding director of Bund One Art Museum.

This is the third time Tix-Media has collaborated with the Marmottan Monet Museum in France to showcase impressionism masterpieces in Shanghai. This exhibition, like the first showcase Tix-Media presented at K11 Art Mall in 2014, documents the development of the impressionism movement and showcases 20 works by Claude Monet. The rest of the paintings are by realism masters such as Eugene Boudin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Edouard Manet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

The exhibition is arranged in chronological order and features a special showroom containing Monet's masterpieces, such as the series on water lilies that depict the flower garden at his Giverny home.

Tix-Media and Marmottan had planned to present the exhibition in 2020, but the pandemic forced all international events to be postponed. Such was the anticipation for the exhibition that tens of thousands of people held on to their presale tickets and waited for the new schedule to be announced instead of opting for a refund, Xie tells China Daily.