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Eugene Boudin "Breakwater Trouville-sur-Mer at High Tide", circa 1888-1895 (From the Normandy collection)
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Claude Monet "Etreta", circa 1864 (From the Normandy collection)
Photo: Promotional photo
Robert Antoine Pinchon "Seine in Rouen at Dusk", 1905 (From the Normandy collection)
Photo: Promotional photo
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Exposition "Painted in Normandy" to be shown in Riga
The Latvian National Museum of Art continues its cooperation with France in presenting noteworthy art projects. From January 23 to March 21, the opportunity to view a major Impressionism exposition for the first time in Riga - “Peindre en Normandie” - 60 paintings selected by Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille Director Alain Tapié, including works by such masters as Monet, Courbet, Corot, Daubigny and Vuillard. It will be shown in tandem with the satellite exhibit "Painted in the Baltics. Studies”.
"Painted in Normandy" is being presented by the association "Les Flux des Arts", the Embassy of France and the French Culture Center in Riga.
The origins of “Peindre en Normandie” date back to 1992 when the Lower Normandy Regional Council began to collect paintings from the years 1750 to 1950.
This exposition, titled "Gleznots Normandijā" in Latvian, inspired the idea to explore turn of the century developments in Latvian art, hence - "Painted in the Baltics. Studies”.
Most of the illustrious artists of that period - Jūlijs Feders, Vilhelms Purvītis, Janis Rozentāls, Johans Valters and others, arrived on the scene from the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, and nature studies were a basic form of expression. |
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