PARIS.- Co-organised by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, La Caja Madrid and the Musée Marmottan Monet, the exhibition Monet and abstraction is presented at the Musée Marmottan Monet from 17 June to 26 September 2010. Monet’s heritage continues to prompt new comparisons: in recent years, his influence on the abstract painters of the second half of the 20th century has been extensively explored. The new exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet examines this modernist legacy, bringing together forty-four Impressionist and abstract works, mostly from the sister collections of the Musée Marmottan Monet and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation. The Impressionists broke with the models of the past, spearheading a new, dissident movement in art. In their wake, the American Expressionists and European Informalists leapt into the breach,