Monet and Matisse to feature in modern garden exhibition

Painting the Modern Garden aims to be popular and scholarly, and will include some spectacular loans, says curator
If French farmers had prevailed, the world may never have seen some of the most popular and revered paintings in the world: Monet’s waterlilies.“They were very suspicious of these strange aquatic plants that they heard Monet was going to plant,” said Ann Dumas, a curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. “They think they are going to poison the water and kill their cat