The dramatic coastline of northern France inspired some of the country’s most famous artists. Now their work will appear in shows across the region
very day I’m here, the sky and the sea are different,” says Anastasia Kharchenko, as an incessant drizzle patters on our umbrellas. “Sometimes you can’t even see the horizon because it’s so foggy, but in certain months the colours are just breathtaking.”
Sunlight flaring across works by Renoir and Pissaro feels fitting for a museum with the largest impressionist collection outside Paris One of the works on display in 1874 was Monet’s Impression, Sunrise, a hazy loosely brushed depiction of the industrial port of Le Havre with a red morning sun reflecting on the water. Painted in 1872, it’s considered the first impressionist painting and became notorious largely thanks to condescending remarks by critic Louis Leroy, who unwittingly coined the term “impressionism” in a review published in the magazine Le Charivari on 25 April 1874: “Impression, I was certain of it.
“But in order to become famous and to live from their art, they could not do that here,” Legendre says. “They had to go to Paris. That is how we link Normandy and Paris. We’re being very diplomatic.”
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