![]() “They asked me for a title for the catalog, it couldn't really be taken for a view of Le Havre, and I said: ‘Put Impression. ![]() The ephemeral play of light, water, and air. The informal and spontaneous brushstrokes establish this picture as one of the first works, along with the famous Impression: Sunrise at the Marmottan Museum in Paris, in the Impressionist style that was to make him famous. When Monet was asked to name his painting, he accidentally coined a term that defined the movement. Impression, Sunrise, Claude MONET (1840-1926). Sunrise exemplifies Monets plein air, or 'outdoor,' approach to painting. Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley, all contributed work painted in a new style, focused on light, and usually painted outside, thanks to the recently invented portable paint tube. Two years later, Monet was organizing an independant exhibition of artists who were experimenting like him. In his words, Monet painted “during dawn, day, dusk, and dark and from varying viewpoints, some from the water itself and others from a hotel room looking down over the port.” It was practice-an experiment. Monet was interested in light, and threw himself into the study of reflections of light on water, with the port as his subject. As one of the French artist’s best-known landscape paintings, it is part of the masterpiece series at Pigment Pool. Estimated Market Price: Between 52.00 and 312.00 Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet has recently been listed as available in the secondary art market. Ursprünglich Marina genannt, schuf Claude Monet 1872 sein Ölgemälde (Impression, Sonnenaufgang) Impression Sunrise im Hafen von Le Havre, seiner Heimatstadt. But in 1872, when Claude Monet was painting a hazy interpretation of the seaport in his hometown of Le Havre in France, the birth of a movement was far from his mind. The high-resolution print revisits the masterpiece Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) painted in 1872 by Claude Monet. ![]() Today, Impressionism is one of the most beloved movements in Western Art. ![]()
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