Sunrise & Sunset
)
[Impression : Sunrise,
1873]
[Oil on canvas, 63 x 48 cm, Private
collection]
The painting had been
stolen?
Claude Monet's Impression Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant) is
one of the most famous paintings in the world.
In fact, it is the painting that gave the Impressionist Movement
its name.
A critic tried to ridicule the artists of this style, by calling them
impressionists.
While looking through a bookstore, I noticed a children's book
about Claude Monet.
I browsed through it, and when I came to the part about Impression
Sunrise, I read that the painting had been stolen.
I had read several books about Monet.
And, I didn't remember reading about this interesting fact.
I tried to check on this, and learn more.
None of the books that I could find, in book stores or libraries, mentioned that the painting had been stolen.
Eventually, I bought the Monet, Catalogue Raisonné, by Daniel
Wildenstein, a massive four-volume set with photographs of every
known Monet painting(1983 of them).
And I read the following facts about Impression Sunrise.
It was signed, "Claude Monet. 72", but he actually painted it in 1873.
He probably added the "72" years after he painted it.
It shows the harbor at Le Havre, looking south-east.
It was stolen from the Musée Marmottan, in Paris, on 27 October,
1985.
It was recovered in December, 1990. It is currently at the Musée
Marmottan.
And it would seem that most books on Monet do not mention the
theft, because they were written before 1985.
[출처 : http://www.jimloy.com/arts/sunrise.htm ]
)
[Sunset, 1880]
[Oil on canvas, Private Collection]
)
[Haystacks at Giverny, the
evening sun, 1888]
[Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 36 1/8 inches (65 x 92
cm), National Gallery of
Australia, Canberra, Canberra, Australia]
)
[The Seine at Bougival in the
Evening, 1869]
[Oil on canvas, 23 1/2 x 28 7/8 inches (60 x 73.5 cm), Smith
College Museum
of Art, Northampton, Massachussetts, USA]
)
[London: Houses of Parliament
at Sunset, 1903]
[Oil on canvas, Private
collection]
[출처 : http://www.artrenewal.org/ ]
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