
La Pointe de La Hève was the first painting by Claude Monet admitted to the Salon in Paris, in 1865, the year when L’Olympia by Manet, his elder, caused a scandal. Much wiser, this coastal landscape with pre-Impressionist touches betrays the full importance of Le Havre and its surroundings in the rise of the young artist, subject of a beautiful exhibition at the André-Malraux Museum of Modern Art (MuMa) in this city (1).
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