Bordighera
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1884
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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
Early in 1884 Claude Monet traveled to Bordighera, a town on the Italian Riviera near the border between Italy and France, for a working visit of three weeks that turned into nearly three months. In a letter to sculptor Auguste Rodin describing his efforts to capture the brilliant Mediterranean light, Monet declared that he was “fencing, wrestling, with the sun.” In other letters he complained of the impossibility of finding a suitable subject amid the region’s abundant vegetation. In this sun-drenched composition painted from a hilltop vantage point, the sea is barely visible through the interlaced trunks of local pine trees.
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 65 × 80.8 cm (25 5/8 × 31 13/16 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 19 exhibitions
Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); sold to Isidore Montaignac, Paris, as the agent for Knoedler and Company, New York, September 1891; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, September 1891; by descent to the Potter Family; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
Exhibitions
- Paris, Georges Petit, 6e exposition internationale de peinture et de sculpture, May 8–June 8, 1887, no cat. no. Boston, Copley Society, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Mar. 1905, as Bordighera, 1884.
- Lent by Mrs. Potter Palmer.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, May 10–Nov., 1910, as Antibes.
- 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.
- Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post–Impressionists, Nov. 1934.
- Oberlin (Ohio) College, Allen Art Museum, Feb. 10–Mar. 19, 1953, no cat. 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.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Hommage à Claude Monet (1840–1926), Feb. 8–May 5, 1980.
- Paris, Centre Culturel du Marais, Claude Monet au temps de Giverny, Apr. 6–July 17, 1983.
- 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.
- Forth Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, Monet and the Mediterranean, June 8–Sept. 7, 1997; New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Oct. 10, 1997–Jan. 18, 1998.
- Portland (Ore.) Museum of Art, Impressions of the Riviera: Monet, Renoir, Matisse and Their Contemporaries, June 25–Oct. 18, 1998.
- Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Vincent’s Choice: The Musée Imaginaire of Van Gogh, Feb. 14–June 15, 2003.
- Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008.
- Tokyo, Japan, The National Museum of Western Art, Hokusai and Japonisme.
- Oct. 21, 2017-Jan. 28, 2018.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
