Клод Моне - В Валь Сен-Никола близ Дьеппа, утро 1897
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В Валь Сен-Никола близ Дьеппа, утро 1897
65x100см холст/масло
Private Collection
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Catalogue Note from Sotheby's
This dramatic cliff-top view of the Atlantic dates from Monet's painting expedition in Pourville in 1897. Monet had worked in this location the year before and marvelled at the splendor of the natural landscape. Returning to the same site a year later, the artist found his access to it seriously threatened. “It so happens that the spot at which I have begun so many canvases, higher up, towards Dieppe, is going to be closed to the public; a Dieppe company has rented all of this land starting from the Val Saint-Nicolas in order to use it for playing all sorts of English games, as well as archery and pigeon-shooting” (Quoted in Daniel Wildenstein, op. cit., p. 606). Monet lamented the destruction of such unspoiled terrain and captured its beauty in several more canvases, adopting almost exactly the same vantage point.