Nearly one-hundred-thousand people have made advance bookings to see an exhibition of paintings by the French impressionist artist, Claude Monet, that's due to open at the Royal Academy in London this month.

It's the highest number of advance tickets ever sold for an art exhibition in Britain.

The show has already attracted more than half-a-million people in Boston, in the United States.

But when it opens in London, one painting -- called Water Lillies -- is likely to be missing.

The French authorities are concerned that, if it's shown in Britain, an attempt might be made to reclaim it as an artwork plundered by the Nazis during the Second World War.