Without the pale halo of the streetlamp or the white glow of the arc lamp, could Celine have undertaken her Voyage at the end of the night ? And Richard Bohringer exclaims How beautiful is a city at night ? All insomniacs would be blind and all night owls very frustrated without artificial lighting.
In Le Havre, 170 works reassure them. At the Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux, as part of the fourth edition of the “Normandy Impressionist” festival, are gathered old photographs, including the series of Parisian street lamps, candelabras and gas burners produced by Charles Marville around 1865; films, some sculptures, drawings, engravings such as the wonderful works of Félix Buhot. And especially paintings. They are signed Monet, Pissarro, Vallotton, Toulouse-Lautrec, Steinlen, Bonnard or Sonia Delaunay, who, with Electric Prisms from 1914, completes this rich journey. They also come from lesser-known foreigners. Their first merit is to revive
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