Chalk cliffs meet a calm sea in soft morning light

A tall chalk cliff rises at the left of the canvas, painted in soft yellow, pink and pale blue tones. Below it, a calm sea fills most of the composition, its surface broken into short horizontal strokes of blue, pink and cream that catch the early light. A narrow strip of pink-toned beach runs along the bottom edge. The sky is pale and hazy. Signed 'Claude Monet 82' at lower left.

Claude Monet (1840–1926) gave Impressionism its name and its longest career. From the 1870s he painted outdoors in the Seine valley and on the Normandy coast, pursuing the changing light of a single motif in series — haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral, the Thames — and from 1890 the garden he built at Giverny, whose water lilies occupied his last twenty-five years. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet, the National Gallery in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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