(Paris 1840 - Giverny 1926)
1884
Oil on canvas - 65 x 81 cm
Painted during the Impressionist painter's second trip to the South of France, this seascape expresses Claude Monet's exaltation in response to the elusiveness of nature.
Highly sensitive to the physical conditions of his surrounding environment, the painter succeeds in conveying the tumult of the foaming waves on the rocks and the rustling of trees shaken by the wind. With a gestural spontaneity verging on abstraction, Claude Monet hints at a fourth dimension in this painting, which is astonishingly modern for its time, in which time is represented both literally and figuratively.