Claude Monet Impression, Soleil levant 1872 Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France Gift of Victorine and Eugene Donope de Monchy, 1940
WHAT’S ON
Monet: Impression, Sunrise This exhibition from the impressionist master features world-famous paintings from the Musée Marmottan Monet, including the 1872 work Impression, Sunrise (Impression, Soleil levant) from which the Impressionism art movement takes its name. This exhibition will bring some forty impressionist and related paintings from the Marmottan, the Tate and Australian and New Zealand collections. The works reveal the formative characteristics of Impressionism – depiction of light, purer colour and capturing the momentary view - by a new generation of artists who abandoned their studios for the world outside. The Musée Marmottan Monet features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet - the largest collection of his works worldwide. The exhibition’s namesake painting rarely travels, which presents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Australian’s to see a masterful painting that became emblematic of a cultural movement.
7 June–18 August 2019 National Gallery of Australia, Parkes ACT nga.gov.au
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