Masterpieces of the Pola Museum of Art: Western Painting – French Painting from Impressionism to the Early 20th Century
This year, 2024, marks the 150 anniversary of the First Impressionist Exhibition, held in Paris in 1874. The Pola Museum of Art (located in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture; director: Noguchi Hiroko) is currently presenting Western Painting – French Painting from Impressionism to the Early 20th Century, an exhibition drawn from the museum collection, which consists of 16 masterpieces, with a special focus on five works by Monet, and traces the vicissitudes of French painting from the Impressionists to subsequent developments.