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 ...

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.

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 left the Channel port town of Le Havre for Paris in 1859 ... a colourful vista of an Arab crowd on a hill above the sea in Algiers. Paul Durand-Ruel, the magnanimous dealer who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...