A curator once told me a story about how the Monet-ed classes live. He was putting together an exhibition of impressionist pictures and approached a collector about borrowing a Monet. Over the summer he went to his house in the south of France and the Monet was one of four that hung in the grand salon. To lend would leave a hole on the wall, and he did like to see them together. When you consider the many hundreds, if not thousands of

Source: The Times August 12, 2020 23:05 UTC