An exhibition in Trieste on Monet and the Impressionists and the close connection with Normandy

The Revoltella Museum in Trieste is hosting the exhibition Monet and the Impressionists in Normandy from Feb. 4 to June 5, 2022, which will bring together more than seventy works to tell the story of Impressionism’s connection to Normandy. The artists featured include Monet, Renoir, Delacroix, and Courbet, painters who captured the immediacy and vitality of the landscape by imprinting on canvas the hues of the sky, the sparkle of water, and the green valleys of Normandy.

The exhibition counts the participation of one of the most significant collections of the Impressionist period, the Peindre en Normandie Collection, from which most of the masterpieces in the exhibition come, along with loans from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, the Belvedere in Vienna, the Musée Eugène-Boudin in Honfleur and private collections.

Intent is to retrace the salient stages of the artistic movement through works such as Crags at Dieppe (1834) by Delacroix, The Beach at Trouville (1865) by Courbet, Camille on the Beach (1870) by Monet,Sunset, View of Guernesey (1893) by Renoir. Masterpieces that chronicle the exchanges, comparisons and collaborations between the greatest artists of the time.

It was English watercolorists such as Turner and Parkes who, having crossed the Channel to indulge in the study of landscapes, passed on their ability to translate truth and natural vitality to French painters: the English speak of Normandy, its light, its rich forms that heighten the senses and the visual experience. Places such as Dieppe, the Seine estuary, Le Havre, Trouville beach, the coastline from Honfleur to Deauville, and the port of Fécamp become a source of powerful artistic expression, where the microcosms generated by the wind, sea and mist possess a physical, intense and expressive personality that French painters arrive at by painting en plein air.

Promoted and organized by the City of Trieste - Department of Culture and Tourism Policies, with the support of Trieste Convention and Visitors Bureau and PromoTurismo FVG, in collaboration with BRIDGECONSULTINGpro and Ponte - Organisation für kulturelles management GMBH, the exhibition is produced by Arthemisia and curated by Alain Tapié.

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An exhibition in Trieste on Monet and the Impressionists and the close connection with Normandy

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