Monet did not paint everything that he saw.See, for instance, the very broad brush strokes at the top of the canvas. The painting was almost certainly produced in one sitting, as Monet raced to capture the rising sun.Instead, he sought to capture his impression of the scene. Unsurprisingly, Impression: Sunrise displays a number of key impressionist traits.įirst, and most importantly, Monet was not trying to produce a photographic representation of the port.
The impression that the Harbour is shrouded in a light mist.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.
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