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Monet masterpieces to be brought together at Tate Liverpool’s major exhibition for 2012

LIVERPOOL.- Five important Monet water lily paintings will be brought together in Tate Liverpool’s major exhibition Turner, Monet, Twombly: Later Paintings from 22 June – 28 October 2012, two of which have never been shown before in Britain. The Water-Lily Pond c1917-19 lent by the Albertina, Vienna, and Water Lilies 1916-19, lent by Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Basel are the works which will go on show for the first time in the UK. They will join three other Monet water-lily paintings in the exhibition: Water Lilies 1916 from The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; Water Lilies 1907 from Göteborgs Konstmuseum; and Water Lilies after 1916, on loan from the National Gallery to the Tate Collection. This will be the first time that five of Monet’s water lilies have been brought together in the UK for over a decade. The five paintings form a major part of the exhibition, which looks at the stunning later wor