Art News: Monet Exhibition at Tate Modern 2027, Tickets

Tate Modern is to stage its first ever solo Claude Monet exhibition. Monet: Painting Time opens on 25 February 2027 and runs until 27 June, with more than 60 paintings, 20 of them Water Lilies. It is the largest Monet exhibition in London, or anywhere in Britain, for nearly a decade, and it comes a hundred years after the painter's death at Giverny in December 1926. Tickets are on sale now.

Monet: Painting Time at Tate Modern

The exhibition is about time. Monet spent his working life trying to catch a single moment of light before it changed, and Tate's argument is that the effort grew more intense as the world around him speeded up, with railways, factories and the telegraph setting a new pace for ordinary life. The show follows that thread from the river scenes of the 1890s to the garden at Giverny, where he painted the same pond, again and again, for the last thirty years of his life.

It has been organised with the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, home of the great Water Lilies murals that Monet gave to France, and is curated at Tate by Juliet Bingham and Genevieve Barton.

What will be on show

Six of the Grainstacks of 1890 and 1891 will hang together, among them Grainstack in the Sunlight, Snow Effect, lent by the Hasso Plattner Collection at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam. Painted at different hours and in different seasons, the series is the clearest early statement of what the exhibition is about. Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Sunrise), from 1897, comes from a private collection, and the National Gallery in London and the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris are lending paintings of the Japanese footbridge over the lily pond.

The heart of the show is the 20 Water Lilies, including rare loans from museums in Japan, among them Water Lily Pond of 1907.

Claude Monet, Blue Water Lilies, about 1916 to 1919. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Monet exhibition tickets and prices

Tickets cost £26, or £25 for concessions. Tate Members go free and do not need to book; they can simply turn up with their card. Visitors aged 16 to 25 can buy £5 tickets through Tate Collective, which is free to join. Tickets can be booked at tate.org.uk or by phone on 020 7887 8888.

The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 6pm, until 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays and until 8pm on Sundays, with late openings until 10pm on selected dates from 22 March 2027. Relaxed hours, for visitors who prefer a quieter gallery, run from 10am to 11am on the third Tuesday of each month. Weekend slots at Tate's biggest exhibitions tend to go first, so book early if you have a particular day in mind. Tate Modern is on Bankside, a short walk across the Millennium Bridge from St Paul's.

Tate Modern and the Millennium Bridge. Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why 2027 matters for Monet

The last major Monet exhibition in Britain was Monet and Architecture at the National Gallery in 2018. The Courtauld's smaller Monet and London: Views of the Thames ran in 2024 and 2025, but nothing since has brought together a group of this size, and Painting Time is timed to follow the centenary of his death.

Interest in Monet hardly needs encouraging. In New York in May 2019 one of the Grainstacks, Meules of 1890, sold for $110.7 million, the first Impressionist painting to pass $100 million at auction, and the Water Lilies are fixtures of the major evening sales. A Tate show on this scale tends to bring Monet's name back into the news and gets owners looking again at what they have.

Tate's 2027 programme

Monet is one of several big names at Tate in 2027. To mark what would have been David Hockney's 90th birthday, after his death in June 2026, Tate Modern will stage a multimedia installation of his opera designs in the Turbine Hall in the summer, and Tate Britain will open a career-spanning exhibition in the autumn. The programme also includes exhibitions of Gainsborough and Edvard Munch.

Owning a Monet, or a print of one

Almost all of Monet's paintings are in museums or major private collections, but his pictures reach far more homes as prints, posters and reproductions, and a smaller number of drawings and works on paper also come to market. Telling a work by Monet from a reproduction, and a fine early print from a modern poster, is the first step, and our Claude Monet guide explains what to look for.

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