Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light
November 25 2024
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
A new exhibition on Claude Monet's step-daughter and later daughter-in-law Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865-1947) is set to open at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University Bloomington, in February next year. The show will be accompanied by a very detailed and scholarly book, the first monographic publication on the artist in English.
According to the museum's website:
Recognized for her sophisticated approach to color, composition, and technique, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865–1947) was part of a successful network of artists in Giverny, Rouen, and Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, although she is most often recognized for her relation to Claude Monet, her stepfather and one of France’s most famous painters. Having come of age at the center of the Impressionist movement, Hoschedé-Monet grew up surrounded by the modern masterpieces in the collection of her father, Ernest Hoschedé, who was a patron of such renowned artists as Édouard Manet, Monet, and Auguste Renoir. Her family’s move to Giverny in 1883 prompted her to take up painting in earnest. With Monet as her mentor, she developed a distinct style that favored carefully framed points of view and landscapes painted en plein air. As the first monographic exhibition of her work in the United States, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light brings together over forty paintings which attest to Hoschedé-Monet’s unique vision and ambitions as an artist in her own right. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue, with contributions by Nicolas Bondenet, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Galina Olmsted, Haley Pierce, and Philippe Piguet, constitute a definitive account of Hoschedé-Monet’s life and art.
The show will run from 14th February until 15th June 2024, and the book is due out in March.