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It was Claude Monet’s Impression: Sunrise painted in 1873, which caused disapproving critics to contemptuously apply the name ‘Impressionist’ to the whole movement with which he was associated. Here is a magnificent collection of the great master’s works. There are many full-colour plates of his earlier works, such as the famous Lady in the Garden Sainte-Adresse (1867) and The Pond at Montgeron (1876–1877) in both of which the artist’s extraordinary ability to capture atmosphere and light are shown in starkly contrasting scenes. Examples of several of the series of paintings of the same subject which Monet was fond of producing – Haystacks, Rouen Cathedral, the London series – are included here, as are his numerous depictions of his favourite resorts, Sainte-Adresse and Etretat on the Alabaster Coast of Normandy.