Two famed water lily paintings by French Impressionist master Claude Monet will go on display in Hong Kong from Friday in a free exhibition highlighting cultural exchange between East and West.

The show, titled “Blooming: the Art of Garden in East and West”, brings together more than 100 sets of exhibits from the Art Institute of Chicago, Beijing’s Palace Museum and the Palace of Versailles in Paris.

The Hong Kong Museum of Art in Tsim Sha Tsui, which is hosting the show, has also contributed pieces.

Works by other masters including Zhang Daqian, Wen Zhengming, Wu Guanzhong will be presented alongside lacquerware, sculptures, ceramics, glassware and prints that explore the taste of the powerful across cultures.

The museum’s director, Maria Mok Kar-wing, said the exhibition was part of the museum’s latest international collaboration.

“The DNA of the museum is very Hong Kong … [with our collections showing] a diverse art world from the encounters between the East and the West, new and old,” Mok said.