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This week, three major international shows: Claude Monet\u2019s Thames views in London, the Henri Matisse retrospective in Basel and Helen Frankenthaler in Florence. An exhibition that Claude Monet hoped to see in his lifetime but which never happened has at last become a reality. A gathering of Monet\u2019s views of the Thames\u2014looking from his hotel room at the Savoy and from across the river on a private terrace of St Thomas\u2019s hospital\u2014has just opened at the Courtauld Gallery in London. Monet had hoped to stage such an event in London soon after the paintings were exhibited to acclaim in Paris in 1904, but so quickly had they dispersed, he was unable to do so. Ben Luke spoke to the curator of the show, Karen Serres, first in the very room at the Savoy Hotel where he made many of the paintings, and then in the exhibition itself. Meanwhile, a rare European retrospective of Henri Matisse\u2019s work has opened at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel. Matisse: Invitation to the Voyage focuses on the artist\u2019s travels, in the world and also in his imagination, through paintings, sculptures and cut-outs made over more than 50 years. Ben Luke went to Basel and spoke to Rapha\xebl Bouvier, the curator. And this episode\u2019s Work of the Week is Mediterranean Thoughts (1960) one of the paintings in Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules, a new exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. The Art Newspaper\u2019s associate digital editor, Alexander Morrison, spoke to Douglas Dreishpoon, who organised the show.

Monet and London: Views of the Thames, Courtauld Gallery, London, until 19 January 2025.

Matisse \u2013 Invitation to the Voyage, Beyeler Foundation, Basel, Switzerland, until 26 January 2025.

Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, until 26 January 2025.

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