Exhibition: Monet, Pissarro & Gauguin – Impressionist Artists in Rouen

Camille Pissarro, View of Rouen, 1898, oil on canvas. © Honolulu Academy of Arts

The role played by the city of Rouen in the history of Western art at the end of the nineteenth century is immense. Camille Pissarro is said to have remarked that “Rouen is a beautiful as Venice”.

This summer the museum of Fine Art in Rouen will host a major exhibition of Impressionist artists as part of the Normandie Impressionniste 2010 festival:

Une ville pour l’Impressionnisme:
Monet, Pissarro et Gauguin à Rouen

The exhibition promises to be truly exceptional and certainly one not to miss, with an amazing selection of over 100 paintings brought together in Rouen from both private and public collections from around the world, including several paintings that have never before been exhibited in France.

Rouen is where Claude Monet painted the Cathedral some thirty times, at various times of the day, and on different days of the year. Paul Gauguin, who painted here in 1884, and Camille Pissarro both painted some remarkable paintings of the city, one of which by Pissarro is illustrated above – a view across the Seine River into the city of Rouen. That same view today is shown below.

The exhibition will open on Friday 4 June, and close Sunday 26 September 2010, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. You may also like to read my article on Léon-Jules Lemaître and the Gros Horloge in Rouen. The exhibition has a section that focusses on the work of Léon-Jules Lemaître and the Rouen School.

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