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This is the bit where we delve into the world of bold avant-garde artists at the NGV's Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2025: French Impressionism.

NGV International has partnered with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to bring this blockbuster exhibition to Melbourne as part of this year’s Winter Masterpieces. See more than 100 paintings by famous artists including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas and witness the trajectory of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in late 19th-century France. 


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Claude Monet, Grainstack (snow effect), 1891, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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