Apples and Grapes
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1880
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
Claude Monet probably painted this and other still lifes in 1879–80, knowing that they would be more readily marketable than his landscapes. In Apples and Grapes, however, he employed the complexity of color, light, and texture found in his most Impressionist landscapes. This is particularly evident in the extensive cloth surface—the play of light on the horizontal brushstrokes (indicating the folds in the tablecloth) recalls earlier canvases in which Monet used similar short horizontals of variegated colors to suggest water rippling in the sunlight.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 66.5 × 82.5 cm (26 3/16 × 32 1/2 in.)
Museum record · 2 owners · 21 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); possibly sold to Cahuzac, Paris, Nov. 1880, in addition to two other paintings (Fleurs, pommes; and Les Saules), for 1,000 francs; possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris, c. 1883.
- Catholina Lambert, Paterson, N.J., by May 16, 1895; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, May 16, 1895; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 18, 1915, for $8,100; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibitions
- Possibly Paris, office of La Vie Moderne, Le peintre Claude Monet, June 1880, as Corbeille de fruits.
- New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, Feb. 11–25, 1902, as Fruits.
- Boston, Copley Society, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Mar. 1905, as Fruits.
- 1880, Lent by Messrs. Durand–Ruel & Sons.
- New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, Jan. 26–Feb. 14, 1907, as Fruits, 1880.
- Possibly Berlin, Paul Cassirer, XI. Jahrgang, II. Ausstellung: Kollektion Lovis Corinth, Ausstellung ‘Stilleben,’ Oct. 15–Nov. 8, 1908, as Stilleben, Früchte.
- Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Special Exhibition of Paintings by the Masters of the Modern French School, Feb. 11–Mar. 5, 1911, as Fruits, 1880.
- New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings Representing Still Life and Flowers by Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, André d’Espagnat, Dec. 20, 1913–Jan. 8, 1914, as Fruits.
- Chicago, Auditorium Hotel,, Dec. 1915.
- University of Chicago, Feb. 11–23, 1918.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934.
- Art Gallery of Toronto, An Exhibition of Great Paintings in the Aid of the Canadian Red Cross, Nov. 15–Dec. 15, 1940.
- Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. Art Museum of St. Louis, Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, Sept. 25–Oct. 22, 1957; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 1–Dec.1, 1957.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975.
- Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980.
- Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985; Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
- Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, Impressionist Still Life, Sept. 22, 2001–Jan. 13, 2002; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 17–June 9, 2002.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
