{"id":55055,"date":"2024-09-25T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T12:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=55055"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T15:28:06","slug":"monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/09\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Monet Makeover: Churchill-Owned Painting Restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_55056\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/12643.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55056\" class=\"wp-image-55056 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/12643-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"An Impressionist painting of Charing Cross Bridge crossing the River Thames in London.\" width=\"263\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/12643-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/12643.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Charing Cross Bridge<\/em> by Claude Monet (prior to cleaning)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In June, I wrote about how the Courtauld Gallery will open <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/06\/monets-london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">an exhibition dedicated to Claude Monet\u2019s London paintings<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The exhibition will open this Friday, September 27th, but not before gallery and National Trust specialists make some last-minute changes. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> includes fully restoring a painting previously caked in decades of cigar smoke from its prior owner, Sir Winston Churchill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Monet had an interesting relationship with London. He first traveled there in 1870, mainly to escape the Franco-Prussian War. The city\u2019s galleries and museums exposed him to the art of J.M.W. Turner and John Constable, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/04\/turner-the-father-of-modern-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">influencing how he would execute his later landscapes<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Monet later painted in London, creating around a hundred paintings over several visits, mainly showing spots on the River Thames, such as <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/77\/Monet_Houses_of_Parliament%2C_Sunset.jpg\/1024px-Monet_Houses_of_Parliament%2C_Sunset.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">the Houses of Parliament<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> and <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/98\/Claude_Monet_-_Waterloo_Bridge_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\/1280px-Claude_Monet_-_Waterloo_Bridge_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Waterloo Bridge<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Starting September 27th, the Courtauld Gallery will exhibit a collection of twenty-one paintings to recreate the artist\u2019s plans for exhibiting these paintings in London in 1905. One of these works, however, had to undergo substantial cleaning and restoration because of its previous owner, British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The painting from Churchill\u2019s collection <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">was mostly completed<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in 1902, but Monet made small changes here and there over many years before he sold it in 1923. The painting looks southwest down the Thames towards Charing Cross Bridge, with the faintest hint of Big Ben on the right-hand side in the distance. Today, Charing Cross Bridge is used mainly for rail, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2f\/Hungerford_Bridge_from_London_Eye.jpg\/1920px-Hungerford_Bridge_from_London_Eye.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">with two additional pedestrian bridges on either side<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> opening in 2002. Churchill kept the Monet <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/cxgd3urn\/production\/a502d1a181aa9548778c234a832fa6cbe93f8526-1159x1148.jpg?w=1920&amp;h=1902&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">in the drawing room of his country estate<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> in Kent, Chartwell House. He received it for his 75th birthday in 1949 from his friend and literary agent, Emery Reves. In a letter, Reves wishes Churchill a good year, during which he appropriately wishes he \u201cwill dissipate the fog that shrouds Westminster.\u201d Churchill was Leader of the Opposition at the time and would live up to Reves\u2019s wishes, winning the 1951 elections and regaining the position of Prime Minister. After Churchill died in 1965, his widow Clementine gave Chartwell and its contents to the National Trust, marking the first time <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Charing Cross Bridge<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> was part of a public collection. But even then, the Monet remained little-known, with it even missing from Daniel Wildenstein\u2019s catalogue raisonn\u00e9 published in 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Over the decades, smoke from fireplaces and the thousands of cigars Churchills smoked each year gradually darkened the painting\u2019s varnish until the subtleties of the color became more difficult to notice. Rebecca Hellen, a conservator for the National Trust, <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.sanity.io\/images\/cxgd3urn\/production\/04a41e2af56678177572232d78d2467aaf50825d-2016x1512.jpg?rect=1,0,2014,1512&amp;w=750&amp;h=563&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=format\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">posed for a photo with the mostly-cleaned Monet<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. The bottom-left corner of the canvas remained uncleaned in the photo to show the differences in color. As one of only two Monet London paintings in British public collections, the Churchill Monet is a particularly consequential loan for the Courtauld Gallery to secure. <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Monet and London: Views of the Thames<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> will be <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">on display<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> at the Courtauld Gallery from September 27, 2024 to January 19, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, I wrote about how the Courtauld Gallery will open an exhibition dedicated to Claude Monet\u2019s London paintings. The exhibition will open this Friday, September 27th, but not before gallery and National Trust specialists make some last-minute changes. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/09\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[384,146,634,91,1198,88,71,107,105,618,40,65,11,9],"class_list":["post-55055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-19th-century-european","tag-19th-century-french","tag-20th-century-european-art","tag-20th-century-french","tag-churchill","tag-french-impressionist","tag-impressionism","tag-landscapes","tag-london","tag-monet","tag-museum-exhibitions","tag-museums","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monet Makeover: Churchill-Owned Painting Restored - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Monet painting once owned by Sir Winston Churchill has been entirely cleaned and restored for an exhibition at London&#039;s Courtauld Gallery.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/09\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monet Makeover: Churchill-Owned Painting Restored\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Monet painting once owned by Sir Winston Churchill has been entirely cleaned and restored for an exhibition at London&#039;s Courtauld Gallery.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2024\/09\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-09-25T12:45:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-09-26T15:28:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/12643.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"327\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Monet Makeover: Churchill-Owned Painting Restored\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-09-25T12:45:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-09-26T15:28:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":513,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/monet-makeover-churchill-owned-painting-restored\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/09\\\/12643.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"19th Century European\",\"19th Century French\",\"20th Century European Art\",\"20th Century French\",\"Churchill\",\"French Impressionist\",\"Impressionism\",\"Landscapes\",\"London\",\"Monet\",\"Museum Exhibitions\",\"museums\",\"Rehs Contemporary - Art World News\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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