Le décor impressionniste. Aux sources des nymphéas. Arts all driven by the same

all driven by the same quest for truth

of hands or skulls

marked by the ambiguities and contradictions inherited from its industrial history

as well as the feeling of having witnessed a vast charade

which Joan Miro discovered in 1920

Le décor impressionniste. Aux sources des nymphéas. Arts all driven by the sameHoused in the Orangerie, Monet's Water Lilies cycle was celebrated as the "Sistine Chapel of Impressionism"; Monet himself had described these paintings as "Great Decorations." Going back to the sources of this masterpiece, this catalog explores for the first time an essential dimension of Impressionism. From the end of the 1860s, the links between Impressionist painters and decoration were varied, fruitful, and central. Monet, but also Caillebotte,