Australia's National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) opened the main exhibition of this year's Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, Monet's Garden: The Muse Marmottan Monet, Paris on Friday.

The exhibition that is showcased exclusively in Melbourne will feature more than 60 excellent works devoted to Claude Monet's iconic garden at Giverny, France.

According to Tony Ellwood who is the director of NGV, the Mus e Marmottan Monet in Paris, which is the home to one of the largest collections of works by Monet in the world, provided more than 50 stunning masterpieces. And it is the first time for Melbourne to welcome these masterpieces, Ellwood said in a media release.

Meanwhile, it is also the first time for Australia to have the exhibition of some of Monet's greatest masterpieces, said Heidi Victoria, minister for the arts in the parliament of the state of Victoria.

Some leading international museums and private collections over the world contributed other works to the exhibition.

According to the NGV, the exhibition will present the spectacular paintings that came from different periods of Monet's life to help the audience to understand completely about works of the grandmaster of Impressionism.

The first section of the show will include a series of paintings that Monet produced while travelling from Norway to London. The second section of the exhibition will consist entirely of paintings representing Monet's beautiful garden at Giverny.

"The show concludes with a spectacular, specially commissioned filmic installation which will immerse visitors in the daily beauty of Monet's garden as it is today," Ellwood said.

More than 8,000 tickets to the exhibition have been sold before the opening, local media quoted Ellwood as saying.

This is the 10th Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibition at the NGV since the series began in 2004. The statistics provided by NGV showed that the exhibition has since attracted more than 3.5 million people worldwide to Melbourne's cultural institutions.

Melbourne Winter Masterpieces is an annual series of major exhibitions to offer people living in Australia the opportunity to experience exclusive art exhibitions of the highest international standards and to attract increasing international and interstate visitors to Victoria, especially to naturally beautiful Melbourne.

Monet's Garden exhibition will last for about five months, accompanied by Hollywood Costume exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, which also participated in the 2013 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series show. Endi

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