The Church at Varengeville and the Gorge of Les Moutiers

The Church at Varengeville and the Gorge of Les Moutiers: Claude Monet

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Claude Monet Oil Painting - The Church at Varengeville and the Gorge of Les Moutiers

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Work Overview: The Church at Varengeville and the Gorge of Les Moutiers
Claude Monet
Date: 1882
Style: Impressionism
Series: The Church at Varengeville
Genre: landscape
Measurements 65.0 x 81.3 cm
Material oil on canvas
Collection Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham

The view is across a hidden gorge to the isolated cliff-top church at Varengeville. Monet painted various subjects along the Normandy coast in the summer of 1882. His practice was to work simultaneously on up to eight canvasses, moving from one to another as the light changed. This sunset view of Varengeville is from a series of four painted in this way. The light from behind the church dissolves its form and catches the foliage in the foreground.
By 1882, Monet had largely abandoned the Impressionist practice of finishing a painting from nature, here the final touches were added in his studio. He became the most commercially successful of the original Impressionist artists.

Provenance Prince Edmond de Polignac, around 1889; purchased by Durand-Ruel, 1897.
Principal Exhibitions Exposition des Oeuvres de M. Claude Monet, Paris, 1883; Claude Monet - A. Rodin, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1889, cat. no. 61; Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1899, cat. no. 19; Exposition Centennale de l'Art Français, Grand Palais des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1900, cat. no. 487; Pictures by Boudin, Manet, Pissarro, etc.,, Grafton Galleries, London, 1905, cat. no. 147; Claude Monet. Exposition organisée au profit des victimes de la catastrophe du Japon, Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1924, cat. no. 28; Claude Monet, Durand-Ruel, New York, 1935, cat. no. 4; Claude Monet, Gimpel Gallery, London, 1950, cat. no. 4; Claude Monet, Tate, London, 1957, cat. no. 69; Post-Impressionism, Cross Currents in European Painting, Royal Academy, London, 1979, cat no. 136; Monet, Museo Espanola de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, 1986, cat. no. 36; French Impressionism: Treasures from the Midlands, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1991, pp. 32-3; The Dieppe Connection, Brighton Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton, 1992, cat. no. 49; Claude Monet, Österreichische Galerie, Vienna, 1996, cat. no. 32; Art Treasures of England, Royal Academy, London, 1998, cat. no. 354; Monet, I luoghi della pittura, Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, 2001; Monet: the Seine and the Sea, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 2003, cat. no. 57; Boudin, Monet and the Sea Painters of Normandy, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, 2004; Claude Monet, 1840-1926, Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, Paris, 2010, cat. no. 68.

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The Church at Varengeville and the Gorge of Les Moutiers

Claude Monet

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