“La Gare Saint-Lazare”: Monet jumps on the bandwagon

2024-04-13T05:01:06.055Z

Highlights: Figaro Special Edition: Paris 1874, Rising Sun Impressionism. Discover in this issue the artistic epic of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Berthe Morisot, Pissaro, Sisley, Cézanne… and this gust of new wind that was Impressionist. In his twelve versions of La Gare Saint-Lazare, the painter exalts the poetry of the modern world. Here she is, the big black beast of the industrial era, the young star of transport, the Castafiore of modernity. The steam locomotive! Monet paints it, slow and heavy, just at the threshold of the station, still in the light. It is the steam locom locomotive of Parisian theater: the new landscape of the Parisian Theater: the Gare St. Lazare (1872) and the Rising Sun (1874) (Figaro: Rising Sun, 1874-1874, $50,000-£30,000)

In his twelve versions of La Gare Saint-Lazare, the painter exalts the poetry of the modern world, in an atmosphere of speed, under a steel vault.