Is the new exhibition of Monet opening in Edinburgh this week – after years of “wining, dining and bamboozling some of the world’s richest collectors” – really “the most intense Monet exhibition there has ever been”? It’s certainly the largest Monet show in the UK ever outside of London “It is two canvasses short of the 79 shown at the Royal Academy in London in 1999, when 813,000 paid to see Monet’s water lilies.”