![]() ![]() Cranes and derricks on the dock, ready to unload ships (BLUE).Factory chimneys puffing out smoke (next to the clippers) (GREEN).The masts of anchored clipper ships (behind the second rowing boat), one of which can also be seen reflected in the water (YELLOW).A third rowing boat (to the top left of the second) (RED).Most viewers then notice the central rowing boat and a secondary rowing boat in the fore- and mid-ground: they seem to be travelling slowly, as if the oarsmen are waking up with the sun. The eye is immediately drawn to the rising sun and the reflection it casts in the water. Monet probably painted the picture in one sitting. The window overlooked the port of Le Havre, on the English Channel in northern France, giving Monet a perfect view to paint the harbour at sunrise. Monet painted ‘Impression, Sunrise’ from the window of the Hôtel de l’Amirauté in Le Havre on 13 November 1872. Read on to learn more about the painting, Monet's inspiration, and how we have come to our valuation. Today, we estimate that it is worth $250-350 million. ![]() In terms of value, the painting was initially bought in 1874 for 800 francs and sold again in 1877 for a mere 210 francs. The painting was not recovered until it was traced to a Corsican apartment five years later. Its fame was increased when it was stolen in a gunpoint raid on 27 October 1985. The painting is now displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, and is one of our top 10 paintings of all time. Impression: Sunrise displays a number of key impressionist features: (i) it was painted quickly, probably in a single sitting, (ii) it uses broad, unblended brushstrokes and one very bold colour, and (iii) it depicts a modern scene. But the term caught on and was adopted by the group we now call the impressionists. The critics used the painting's name to coin the word 'impressionism', intended as an insult. "wallpaper in its early stages is more finished than that". Claude Monet's Impression: Sunrise, painted in November 1872 when Monet was 32, is one of the most famous and important impressionist works.Įxhibited by Monet at the 1874 first impressionist exhibition, the painting was panned by the critics. The paint is applied thickly to conjure quite a. The extraordinary depiction of the moon and the stars with their exaggerated light, with their simplified form, orange centers, expanding yellow rings and white highlights, melts with gentle greens into the swirling sky. Through his choice of using several shades of bold blues and greens, he creates a deeply evocative representation of night time. Below the exploding stars, the village is a place of quiet order. In the sky, there is an orange and yellow moon along with eleven bright white and yellow stars. The starry sky occupies more than half of the painting. His use of vibrant colors used in the sky reflects on the whole landscape. Van Gogh not only uses Impressionist traits of observation and setting of time, but then transforms it through his emotional response and expresses the subject in a whole new way. In Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night", Night is an abstract representation of a landscape set at night. The viewer is brought into Monet's impression of the landscape and immediately intrigued by its dreamy colors and mysterious quality. Instead, he placed little touches of red and blue side by side on the canvas. He did not paint an object violet by mixing red and blue together on his palette. Monet also had a certain new way of painting bright colors. Monet's painting was based on his theory that no object has a definite fixed color, but by the way the light strikes it at a particular moment. The subject matter and industrial landscape also signal a major difference from what had become expected of the French artists of the time. The brushstrokes are clearly evident and not blended together to depict a realistic representation, rather an impressionist one. Except for its sketch like form, the focus on the shifting reflections in the water, and the importance of shadows are what appeals most to the viewer. In Claude Monet's "Sunrise", we see a view of the harbor at Le Havre.
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