“Color is my daylong obsession, joy, and torment.”
-Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise
Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement.
Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown. It is now displayed at the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris.
Impressionism owes its name to him
Monet's 1874 seascape, Impression, Sunrise, was shown at the first exhibition of the Cooperative and Anonymous Association of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers. The critic Louis Leroy mocked all the unfinished-looking paintings as 'impressions', and the name stuck.
Sommer Anagoria 1874
Water Lilies 1906
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
The Collection
