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Claude Monet often marvelled at London's extraordinary fog so very yellow'. Yellow fogs were common at the time due to large concentrations of sulphurous emissions in the air. Monet complements this tone with swathes of pink and purple. The placement of the seemingly floating bridge cutting through the composition is indebted to Japanese prints, which Monet collected.

This painting was given to Winston Churchill in 1949 by his literary agent who added that he hoped Churchill, by then the Leader of the Opposition, would soon 'dissipate the fog that shrouds Westminster' - an allusion to the Houses of Parliament, visible in the distance on the right.*

Taken from the exhibition

Monet and London: Views of the Thames

(September 2024 - January 2025)

Claude Monet (1840—1926) is world renowned as the leading figure of French Impressionism, the movement that changed the course of modern art. Less known is the fact that some of Monet’s most remarkable Impressionist paintings were made not in France but in London. They depict extraordinary views of the Thames as it had never been seen before, full of evocative atmosphere, mysterious light and radiant colour.

Begun during three stays in the capital between 1899 and 1901, the series — depicting Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament — was unveiled in Paris in 1904. Monet fervently wanted to show them in London the following year, but plans fell through. To this day, they have never been the subject of a UK exhibition.

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames realises Monet’s unfulfilled ambition of showing this extraordinary group of paintings in London, and just 300 metres from the Savoy Hotel where many of them were painted. By presenting the paintings Monet himself selected for his public in Paris and London, it provides visitors with the unique experience of seeing the show Monet curated and the works he felt best represented his ambitious artistic enterprise — brought together for the first time 120 years after their inaugural exhibition.

[*Courtauld Gallery]

Taken in The Courtauld

Austria - Vienna - Verbund Building - Yellow Fog - 08 12 2014 by gqxumatd53

Vienna - Verbund Building - Yellow Fog

fabric by marina di Lecco

Charing Cross Bridge by B

Charing Cross Bridge, 1902

Oil on canvas

Claude Monet often marvelled at London's extraordinary fog so very yellow'. Yellow fogs were common at the time due to large concentrations of sulphurous emissions in the air. Monet complements this tone with swathes of pink and purple. The placement of the seemingly floating bridge cutting through the composition is indebted to Japanese prints, which Monet collected.

This painting was given to Winston Churchill in 1949 by his literary agent who added that he hoped Churchill, by then the Leader of the Opposition, would soon 'dissipate the fog that shrouds Westminster' - an allusion to the Houses of Parliament, visible in the distance on the right.*

Taken from the exhibition

Monet and London: Views of the Thames

(September 2024 - January 2025)

Claude Monet (1840—1926) is world renowned as the leading figure of French Impressionism, the movement that changed the course of modern art. Less known is the fact that some of Monet’s most remarkable Impressionist paintings were made not in France but in London. They depict extraordinary views of the Thames as it had never been seen before, full of evocative atmosphere, mysterious light and radiant colour.

Begun during three stays in the capital between 1899 and 1901, the series — depicting Charing Cross Bridge, Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament — was unveiled in Paris in 1904. Monet fervently wanted to show them in London the following year, but plans fell through. To this day, they have never been the subject of a UK exhibition.

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Monet and London. Views of the Thames realises Monet’s unfulfilled ambition of showing this extraordinary group of paintings in London, and just 300 metres from the Savoy Hotel where many of them were painted. By presenting the paintings Monet himself selected for his public in Paris and London, it provides visitors with the unique experience of seeing the show Monet curated and the works he felt best represented his ambitious artistic enterprise — brought together for the first time 120 years after their inaugural exhibition.

[*Courtauld Gallery]

Taken in The Courtauld

Austria - Vienna - Verbund Building - Yellow Fog - 08 12 2014 by gqxumatd53