Shop art print and framed art Beach at Pourville, Sunset by Claude Monet

Beach in Pourville (title in French: La plage à Pourville, soleil couchant) is a painting by French artist Claude Monet. It is one of an 1882 series of oil-on-canvas works by Monet in the small seaside resort of Pourville-sur-Mer (now part of the commune of Hautot-sur-Mer), near Dieppe in northern France. Monet is considered one of the most important members of the group of painters identified as the Impressionists. The painting was bought by the National Museum, Pozna?, Poland in 1906 and exhibited in the display of their collection. The painting was stolen from the Pozna? National Museum in September 2000. It was cut out of its frame and replaced with a copy, which had been painted on cardboard. At the time, the painting was valued at more than The painting was recovered on 12 January 2010. Police also arrested a 41-year-old man in the southern Polish city of Olkusz, whom they believe to be the painter of the copy used in the robbery. The suspect was traced through fingerprints and other evidence left at the site of the [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« Beach at Pourville, Sunset » is kept at Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France.

 

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