Monet at Tate Modern in 2027: 60 Paintings, 20 Water Lilies and the London Bridges

Tate Modern has never held a Monet exhibition. That changes on 25 February 2027, when 'Monet: Painting Time' opens on Bankside and runs to 27 June 2027. Tate announced it in a press release on 16 September, calling it the gallery's first ever Monet exhibition and the UK's largest presentation of his work in nearly a decade, timed for the centenary of his death in 1926.

The numbers from the release: more than 60 paintings, 20 of them Water Lilies. The exhibition is organised with the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, home of the great Water Lilies rooms, and curated by Juliet Bingham and Genevieve Barton. Morgan Stanley is lead supporter, with additional support from Anthropic and the Huo Family Foundation.

What is coming to London

The loans Tate names run through the series that made Monet's reputation. There are six Grainstacks, including Grainstack in the Sunlight, Snow Effect (1891) from the Hasso Plattner Collection at the Museum Barberini; Cathédrale de Rouen, effet de soleil, fin de journée (1892); and Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Sunrise) (1897). Water Lily Pond (1907) comes from Japanese institutions, and the garden-bridge paintings from the National Gallery in London and the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris. Time Out adds Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare (1877) and works from the Poplars and Mornings on the Seine series.

The London pictures are in it too. FAD Magazine reports that the show includes Waterloo Bridge, London, at Dusk (1904), lent by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and Charing Cross Bridge, Smoke in Fog, Impression (1902): the Thames in the fog Monet came to London to paint, hung a short walk along the river from where he painted it.

The Thames in fog, back on the Thames: Monet's London series, a short walk from the bridges themselves.

Tickets

Standard ticket prices had not been confirmed when Time Out reported the announcement on 16 September. What is fixed: Tate Members go free, and Tate Collective members aged 16 to 25 pay £5, Time Out reports. The membership pitch is the obvious one, and Tate is making it now, five months ahead. For comparison, the National Gallery's free Monet and Renoir display in Room 41 closes on Tuesday 22 September 2026; after that, the next big Monet moment in London is this one.