As the fog of dawn lifted one morning in mid-November 1872, Claude Monet looked out the window of his hotel room in the French city of Le Havre and furiously painted his vision of its industrial harbor.
He flung his brush with quick strokes and played with the water, stretching it with rays of color.
In one sitting, he created “Impression, Sunrise,” a painting of a vivid orange sun with its reflection shimmering in the sea.
In 1874, Monet, who grew up in Le Havre on the Normandy coast, included the painting in an exhibition of 30 artists’ work organized in response to the Paris Salon, an annual showcase of academic art.
“I thought to myself, this has made an impression on me so there must be impressions somewhere in there.”
Persons:
Claude Monet, Le Havre, Monet, Louis Leroy, ”, “
Organizations:
Paris Salon
Locations:
French, Le, Le Havre, Normandy