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Impression, soleil levant

Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) is a painting by Claude Monet, for which the impressionist movement was named.

Dated 1872, but probably created in 1873, it depicts the harbour of Le Havre and was displayed in 1874 during an independent art show called the Salon des Refusés (The Salon of the Rejects) organized by the first impressionists (who were not yet known by that name). A hostile critic, Louis Leroy , inspired by the painting's name, entitled an article about the show, "The Exhibition of the Impressionists", thus naming the new art movement.

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