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MONET, Claude: The Cliff and the Porte d’Aval

🖼 The Cliff and the Porte d’Aval, 1885
Oil on canvas
65 × 81 cm
Potsdam, Germany

Soft light dissolves the dramatic chalk cliffs into atmospheric haze, their forms fragmented by Monet's broken brushwork. This series pioneered Impressionism's radical exploration of light's transformative power, establishing the cliff as a motif for capturing fleeting perceptual moments rather than geological fact.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Daniel Wildenstein
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