On 13 November 1872, from the window of his hotel in Le Havre, Claude Monet painted a view of the port through the mist.
When, two years later it was shown under the title ‘Impression, soleil levant’ at the Musée Marmottan Monet, critic Louis Leroy coined the term “Impressionist”, so giving a name to the group formed by Monet and his fellow painters.
Claude Monet
Impression, soleil levant, 1872, Huile sur
toile, 50 × 65 cm. Paris, musée Marmot-
tan Monet © Musée Marmottan Monet,
Paris / Studio Christian Baraja SLB
In 2022, Paris’s Musée Marmottan Monet, celebrates the 150th anniversary of this painting through the exhibition “Facing the Sun”.
The sun of course has been a motif for artists from Antiquity which is where the show starts. It goes on to include works by Dürer, Rubens, Joseph Vernet, Turner, Boudin, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, André Derain, Maurice Denis, Munch, and Sonia Delaunay. These are just some of the artists shown in this exhibition, in honour of Monet’s illustrious sunrise.
Paul Signac
Le Port au soleil
couchant, opus 236
(Saint-Tropez), 1892,
Huile sur toile, 65
× 81 cm. Potsdam,
Hasso Plattner
Collection
© Hasso Plattner
Collection / Recom
Art, Berlin
Details: The show is running in Paris from 21 September 2022 to 29 January 2023 and in Potsdam, from 25 February to 11 June 2023 under the title “Sonne. Die Quelle des Lichts in der Kunst”. Website: https://www.marmottan.fr/expositions/face-au-soleil/
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