![]() Saint‑Lazare Station 1877 and Waterlilies 1903.Īs well as the treasures from Musée Marmottan Monet, we have collaborated with Tate, Yale Centre for British Art, several French regional museums and the most important public and private collections in Australia and New Zealand. We are so fortunate to be able to show it here in Canberra! Other key paintings include the Turners, those by Monet’s teacher Eugene Boudin, as well as Monet’s masterpieces of his middle and late periods: The Tuileries 1876 The Pont de l’Europe. This work rarely leaves its home in Paris and has never travelled the southern hemisphere. Obviously the most important painting in the show to see is Impression, sunrise. Can you tell us some absolute must-see pieces? There will be 60 works in the exhibition. Monet and his contemporaries are now some of the most important, and most-loved, artists of all time! This exhibition was such a shock to many of the art critics: the group was derisively named Impressionists, as in they hadn’t even bothered to finish their works and that they were only an impression or sketch of the subject. Monet’s painting of the Port of Le Havre at sunrise which he named Impression, sunrise, was exhibited at the First Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874. What is impressionism and how did this movement come about? The second half of the exhibition demonstrates how Monet continued to refine these ideas for the rest of his life, ending with his famous Waterlilies series. The exhibition includes works by master landscape artists who came before Monet, who shaped the ways he looked at the French landscape and applied paint to canvas. Monet and his seminal painting, Impression, sunrise 1872, is the heart of this exhibition: it shows how the young artist came to paint the work, his influences and, in turn, his impact on subsequent generations. Whilst the exhibition is titled Monet: Impression Sunrise it won’t just be Monet on display? ![]() For an insight into this EXCLUSIVE exhibition, we sat down with the Co-ordinator Curator, Simeran Maxwell. ![]() See the painting that defined Impressionism, Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, visiting Australia for the first time in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia, 7 June - 1 September 2019. ![]()
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