Impression(s), soleil

de Annette Haudiquet, Sylvie Aubenas

In 1872, Claude Monet painted, from the Great Wharf, this view of the port of Le Havre in the rising sun, which would give its name to Impressionism. For four weeks, from September 10 to October 8, 2017, the Master's masterpiece returns to the city where he was born. Alongside Impression, sunriseand several other paintings by Monet, MuMa includes some thirty works by Joseph Mallord, William Turner, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Boudin, Felix Vallotton and Raoul Dufy, all of whom have worked in Le Havre and have been interested in how they could, with their own pictorial means, translate the fleetingness of an instant, fix on the canvas the ephemeral beauty of a sky, the movements of the sea, or the course of the sun. An exhibition-event, which extends the summer in beauty and closes the program of events organized as part of the 500 years of the city of Le Havre... But Claude Monet is not the only one who painted Le Havre and its light. But Claude Monet is not the only one who painted Le Havre and its light. Around Impression, sunrise, the exhibition "Impression (s), soleil" brings together thirty works by five major artists of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century: William Turner, Gustave Le Gray, Eugène Boudin, Félix Vallotton and Raoul Dufy.