Eugène Boudin Exhibition: Father of Impressionism — In Pursuit of Light
Marking Japan's first full-scale Boudin exhibition in 30 years, about 100 works explore the legacy of the "father of Impressionism" Eugène Boudin.Summary
This exhibition presents the career of the 19th-century French painter Eugène Boudin (1824-1898), known as a pioneer and "father of Impressionism." Boudin is celebrated for depicting the skies, seascapes, and pasture cows of his native Normandy with fresh colors and light brushwork. His practice of observing nature directly outdoors and capturing fleeting light and atmosphere greatly influenced painters of the time, including the young Claude Monet, and eventually led to the birth of Impressionism. His rendering of skies and clouds was praised by the poet Baudelaire as a "world of meteorological beauty" and by the Barbizon painter Corot as the "king of skies." This marks Japan's first full-scale exhibition of his work in 30 years, spotlighting also his figures and architectural motifs, and reassessing from a new perspective Boudin's appeal through about 100 works, including oils, drawings, pastels, and prints, that contributed greatly to the development of modern landscape painting. The exhibition runs from November 28, 2026 to January 31, 2027 at the Gunma Prefectural Museum of Modern Art.
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