Monet Impression, Sunrise Composition

Monet painted Impression, soleil levant in his home port of Le Havre in 1872 and showed it at the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874. The critic Louis Leroy seized on the title and ridiculed the group as ‘Impressionists’ – and the name stuck. The original canvas is held by the Musee Marmottan Monet in Paris; this poster composition sets that famous view inside a soft sage-green border with white serif titling above and below.

The painting itself is built almost entirely from soft blue-grey horizontals and a single hot vermilion note for the sun and its reflection; ships are no more than dark silhouettes and the cranes of the industrial port disappear into pink fog. Claude Monet (1840-1926) is the founding figure of French Impressionism; companion Le Havre and harbour canvases hang at the Musee d’Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

This Monet inspired wall art suits Perth and Fremantle living rooms, hallways and bedrooms painted in chalk, oat, sage or pale eucalypt; it pairs well with linen sofas, raw timber, brushed brass and a single ceramic vessel. The teal-and-tangerine palette lifts a rust velvet cushion, terracotta lamp base or warm jute rug without crowding the room.

Choose stretched canvas, white floating frame, slim black framed print or archival lustre paper. Each impressionist art reproduction is hand-finished in our Perth workshop and shipped Australia-wide on rigid backing.