The Japanese Bridge - Claude Monet (France), 1925

Frame: Reproduction of the frame style preferred by Monet for his later pictures. Gift of Myron Kunin Monet made the footbridge in his garden at Giverny the subject of two series in 1895-1900 and 1919, and he returned to its wisteria-covered frame repeatedly in the 1920s. With its raw vigor and passionate coloring, this picture underscores an observation Monet once made of his water landscapes in general - it reveals "the instability of a universe transforming itself every moment before our eyes."