In Neuchâtel, when impressionist gentleness meets Nazi fury

The Workshop Boat, medium format oil and flagship work of the exhibition, was painted in 1876. Sailing in peaceful waters which carve a passage between the gold of the hardwoods, the boat, both a place of contemplation and a floating workshop, breathes tone of silent pools.

Buried dogmas

Its author, Claude Monet (1840-1926) was one of the leaders of the Impressionist movement which revolutionized painting in the second half of the 19th century.

He and his peers, burying the academic dogmas then in force, replaced pompous historical, religious or mythological subjects with landscape painting, often done outdoors, on the banks of the Seine, places of nautical pleasure and various distractions.

Conjunction of events

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