"Making plain-air one of its chief concerns, impressionism revolutionized the art world."

Mathieu describes the exhibition as "remarkable" not only because people in Shanghai would get to see Impression Sunrise for the first time but also because the pandemic created great challenges in transporting the artwork.

Benoit Guidee, the consul general of France to Shanghai, says the Marmottan Monet Museum and the Chinese organizers of the exhibition had to do everything they could to make the exhibition happen.

According to Xie Dingwei, president of Tix-Media Co Ltd and founding director of Bund One Art Museum, Tix-Media and the Marmottan Monet Museum began to work together as early as 2014, when the former presented a collection of Marmottan's paintings at an exhibition at the K11 art mall, marking the first large-scale showcase of Monet's art on the Chinese mainland.

After working with established artists for years, Xie believed Shanghai needed more private exhibition spaces that could host showcases of museum-level artworks. This led to the establishment of Bund One Art Museum, a joint project between Tix-Media and Xinhua Distributions Group. Located at Jiushi Art Center on the Bund, or No 1 Zhongshan No 1 Road East, the museum was inaugurated on Oct 1, 2019. Its first exhibition featured the works of modern Chinese ink artist Qi Baishi.