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Painting
Towing a Boat, Honfleur
Claude Monet, (Paris, 1840 – 1926, Giverny, France)
Monet, Claude
France
1840 - 1926
Male
21 3/4 x 32 5/16 in. (55.2 x 82.1 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1864
1864
1864
1800-1900, 19th century, boats, men, paintings, seascapes
Painting
"All that is painted directly, at a given moment, has a force, power, and vitality which can never be duplicated in a studio." --Eugène Boudin, to his student Claude Monet
Claude Monet’s early paintings were solidly grounded in the work of the preceding generation of French landscape painters called the Barbizon school. Their insistence on painting en plein air, or out of doors, led to Monet’s passion for capturing the transience of light.
Towing a Boat, Honfleur, painted ten years before the term Impressionism was coined, captures the moment that night overtakes sunset. It is one of the earliest of Monet’s many seascapes. As an experiment in reproducing the changing effects of light under different atmospheric conditions, the painting shows his process of abstracting nature into simplified forms and exaggerated color contrasts.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
lower leftback of frame
1991.35
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Memorial Art Gallery
8/8/2000
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Painting
The Rocks at Pourville, Low Tide
Claude Monet, (Paris, 1840 – 1926, Giverny, France)
Monet, Claude
France
1840 - 1926
Male
25 5/16 x 31 in. (64.3 x 78.7 cm)
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Oil
Oil
1882
1882
1882
1800-1900, 19th century, paintings, seascapes, waves
Painting
This painting belongs to a series of works produced during the spring and summer of 1882, while Monet visited Pourville, a town on the Normandy coast. As he explored the beach and the rocks exposed at low tide, Monet found a startling diversity of viewpoints that enabled him to create some of his most dramatic and unexpected compositions. In all of them, Monet placed himself far out across the beach, a little to the east of Pourville. He juxtaposed the cliffs in the far distance with the fragmented forms of the rock shelves in the foreground, using unique brushstrokes to convey the movement and light of the water and clouds.
Monet’s technique gradually changed from completing paintings out of doors to one of making hundreds of concentrated studies on location. He then compiled and reworked these many sketches in his studio, where he created the final canvases.
[Label copy from Monet: Vision and Process exhibition, 2018]
1939.22
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Memorial Art Gallery
1/17/2001
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