Le Havre's Andre Malraux Museum of Modern Art

The MuMa is the largest collection of Impressionist works in France, outside Paris. Michelin takes scant notice of it, doesn't get its name right, but then gives it two stars. Go figure. We spent a few hours there and were quite impressed. Anything named for Malraux should be superb. Just a smidgeon of the wonderful collection follows...

Striking building, right on the harbor, calculated to make the
best use of the light so studied by the Impressionists

Entrance

The light is great, and you can get this close to some of Monet's
Water Lilies and other master works

A Pissaro, something about the harbor at Le Havre, rising tide

Monet, Seashore at Fecamp

Monet, Winter Sun, Lavacourt

Pissaro, Apple Trees and Poplars at Sunset, Ergny

Sisley, The Seine at Point-du-Jour

Paul Gaugin, Landscape at Te Vaa

A whole wall of cow studies by Boudin

Another whole wall of Boudin, some studies, some finished
works of a master

Like this Woman in White on Trouville Beach, 1869

Or Cliffs at Etretat

Or The Harbor at Honfleur

Or The Bassin de Commerce we saw before

Lacoste's Snowy Landscape in Paris

One of several Courbet's, Landscape at Ornan

Seashore at Palavas

The Wave

Renoir's Portrait of Nini Lopez

Monet's The Seine at Vertheuil

Renoir, The Pines in Cagnes

And mixed in with all the others, Fantin-Latours,
a few Delacroix, and more, is this Ribera's San
Sebastian; great museum, only a hundred miles
from Paris! No crowds!