Fifty paintings trace the birth and evolution of impressionism, Monet and Renoir to Matisse, citing the passage of seasons, the river and port activities, entertainment on the banks of the Seine, and the resorts of artists.

During the festival Impressionist Normandy in 2010, the Impressionists Museum Giverny offers an exhibition meet, following a chronological selection of some fifty paintings exclusively on the banks of the Seine. They evoke the passage of seasons, activities and river ports (Le Havre, Rouen, Paris), recreation along the Seine (Argenteuil, Chatou, Asnieres, La Grande Jatte), the resorts of artists (Gustave Caillebotte at Breakfast Gennevilliers, Claude Monet at Giverny Vetheuil and Pierre Bonnard to Vernonnet, Maximilien Luce at Mantes, etc..).

The exhibition begins with pre-Impressionist works of Jean-Baptiste Corot, Johann Barthold Jongkind, Boudin and Stanislas Lepine. It continues with the works of impressionist Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Gustave Caillebotte and Armand Guillaumin. A section is then devoted to post-impressionism (Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis).

Finally, the exhibition concludes with a selection of works “Fauves”: André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck, Henri Matisse and Albert Marquet. This demonstration is intended didactic - a history of impressionism over the Seine - also offers face to face unusual. This exhibition has profit by loans outstanding of the Orsay Museum and National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

Claude Monet (1840-1926) Argenteuil 1875  Paris, musée de l’Orangerie © RMN Musée de l’Orangerie / Franck Raux

Jusqu'au 18 Juillet 2010

Musée des Impressionnismes
GIVERNY