Eugène Boudin: Le père de l’impressionisme
Une collection particulière
Laurent Manoeuvre (Ed.), Erik Desmazières (foreword)
Musée Larmottan Monet, 2025
€32,00
A retrospective of the work of Impressionist painter Eugène Boudin. All facets of the artist’s work are presented: scenes of beaches and daily life in Normandy, Venice, and Bordeaux, watercolors, sketches, commissions for collectors, and more.
Eugène Boudin (1824-1898), born in Honfleur and raised in Le Havre, devoted himself from the very beginning to capturing the fleeting effects of light on the Seine estuary. His student, Claude Monet, described himself as “fascinated” by the “instantaneousness” of these studies, the precursors of Impressionism.
The collection assembled by Yann Guyonvarc’h allows visitors to discover, through sketches and ambitious paintings intended for the Salon, the evolution of this champion of the sky, from his early Normandy landscapes to his final seascapes of the South of France and Venice. It also allows visitors to follow his travels to Brittany, Bordeaux, the North of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, not to mention the famous beach scenes of Trouville and Deauville. In this book, rich in more than two hundred works, this unique collection enters into dialogue with the works of the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art in Le Havre as well as an exceptional selection of drawings from the Musée d’Orsay accompanied by around ten paintings and drawings from the collections of the Musée Marmottan Monet. IN FRANS!
ISBN: 9782382032190
