To support The Water Lilies. American Abstract Painting and the Last Monet, an exhibition to be shown at the Musée de l’Orangerie in celebration of the 100^th anniversary of Claude Monet’s gift of the Waterlilies series to the French State. The exhibition considers the modernity of the work and its legacy by focusing on 20 works by American Abstract artists working in the 1950s. The exhibition is accompanied by a French-language catalogue.