Renovation de l'Orangerie des Tuileries
Monet Les Nympheas
The prestigious room of the Nympheas of the Orangery of Tuileries had
been closed for 6 years for a deep restoration. It will re-open
to the public on May 17, 2006. We will be able to contemplate the
absolute masterpiece of Monet again there, the immense panels of
Nymphéas. The complete ex collection Walter Guillaume will
be presented there to the public : 144 prestigious works signed Renoir,
Derain, Cézanne, Picasso, Soutine, Modigliani. Built in
1852 but transformed into museum in 1927, this gallery of the Orangery
now doubles the surface of its basements. For a budget of 29
million Euros, the purpose was erasing the poor former adjustments of
the Sixties which had quite simply deprived of natural light the
immense fresco of Monet. Monumental work when we know that it is
100 meters long. 100 meters of artificial light to develop the
Master of the sun : A design mistake when one thinks about that
today. For now, the two elliptic rooms designed and offered to
France by the artist himself after the victory of 1918, are capped
giant cones, lamp-shade natural which allow in the light of making play
its diurnal variations. As in their small pond of Giverny,
Nympheas change colour and contrasts to the liking of the hours of the
day and the seasons. A natural variation in perpetual
change. The varnish of the fresco, which displeased in Monet, was
even withdrawn during the restoration. The collection Walter
Guillaume is entirely hung in the basements of the Gallery.
