First, there were the paintings of British landscape innovator, JMW Turner, whose canvases whirl and boil with sea spray ... moved the family to Le Havre when Claude Monet was five.

By Elaine Sciolino As the fog of dawn lifted one morning in mid-November 1872, Claude Monet looked ... shimmering in the sea. In 1874, Monet, who grew up in Le Havre on the Normandy coast ...

Claude Monet ... Before he emerged as an Impressionist painter, Monet was “O. Monet” a local caricaturist in the town of Le Havre in the Normandy region of northern France.

Pesky Americans were partly to blame for all those water lily paintings that have made Claude ... in Monet's era - and on into Normandy, where it empties into the English Channel at Le Havre ...

Claude Monet, born on November 14, 1840, in Paris, France, was a foundational figure in the Impressionism, a term derived from his painting, "Impression, Sunrise." Monet's early life in Le Havre ...

that Claude Monet ... fog, sea spray and mist. From his home in Argenteuil, on the western fringe of Paris, Monet traveled by train to the industrial port of Le Havre. He painted the port ...

In December 1883, Pierre-Auguste Renoir invited his friend Claude ... Monet in Paris, it traces the 60-year arc of the artist’s career from 1860s landscapes around his native Le Havre to the ...

A new exhibition with nearly 100 paintings by Claude Monet spotlights ... according to a news release. “Monet’s work is very coherent. From his youth in Le Havre, to the last paintings in ...

Notably left out was Claude Monet (1840-1926 ... The basic outlines of Monet’s life are well known. Born in Paris, he grew up in Le Havre, the Norman port, where Eugène Boudin, the French ...

In September, 1870, while Prussian soldiers were trying to starve Paris into surrender, Claude Monet was in Normandy ... in Paris in 1840 and grew up in Le Havre. His merchant father, Adolphe ...