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Poppy Field (Giverny)

Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)

1890–91

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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

In July 1890, Claude Monet began four almost identically scaled canvases showing poppy fields near his home in Giverny. Although he did not consider these to be a series, like the 25 paintings of stacks of wheat that he began shortly after the harvest that same summer, the works certainly show his growing interest in developing several canvases at once. They also demonstrate a far more homogeneous touch than the freely brushed landscapes of his earlier career, with surfaces that have a tapestry-like materiality.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Original size
61.2 × 93.4 cm (24 1/16 × 36 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago · 1922.4465 ↗
Museum record · 2 owners · 19 exhibitions

Provenance

  • The artist (d. 1926); possibly sold to Hamman, Paris, as agent for Knoedler and Company, New York, Sept. 1891.
  • Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, by January 24, 1893; on deposit with Durand-Ruel, New York, by Jan. 24, 1893; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Jan. 24, 1893, for 5,000 francs; sold to William W. Kimball (d. 1904), Chicago, Apr. 16, 1901, for $3,200; by descent to Mrs. Evaline M. Kimball (née Cone, d. 1921); bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Exhibitions

  • New York, Fine Arts Society Building, Loan Exhibition, Feb. 1893, as Champ des Coquelicots, Lent by Mr. Durand-Ruel.
  • New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exposition of Forty Paintings by Claude Monet, Jan. 12–27, 1895, as Coquelicots.
  • Possibly Boston, St. Botolph Club, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, Feb. 4–16, 1895, as Coquelicots.
  • Buffalo (N.Y.), Library Building, Buffalo Society of Artists, Fifth Annual Exhibition, Mar. 23–Apr. 11, 1896, as Landscape, Durand-Ruel.
  • Possibly Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Second Annual Exhibition, Nov. 4, 1897–Jan. 1, 1898, as Red Poppies.
  • Possibly Omaha, Neb., Trans–Mississippi and International Exposition, Fine Arts Exhibit, June 1–Nov. 1, 1898, as Coquelicots.
  • Loaned by Durand–Ruel, Paris.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1–June 15, 1957, no cat. no. 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.
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition du Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
  • Auckland City Art Gallery, Claude Monet: Painter of Light, Apr. 29–June 9, 1985; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 21–Aug. 4, 1985; Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Aug. 14–Sept. 29, 1985.
  • Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the ’90s: The Series Paintings, February 7–April 29, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, 1990; London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7–December 9, 1990.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995.
  • Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, On View to the World: Paintings at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, 1898, May 30–Aug. 16, 1998, no cat. Florence, Sala Bianca di Palazzo Pitti, Claude Monet: La poesia della luce; Sette capolavori dell’Art Institute di Chicago a Palazzo Pitti, June 2–Aug. 29, 1999, no cat. no..
  • Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Claude Monet: Effet de soleil—Felder im Frühling, May 20–Sept. 24, 2006.
  • Musée d’Art Américain Giverny/Terra Foundation for American Art, Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915, Apr. 1–July 1, 2007. no.; San Diego Museum of Art, July 22–Oct. 1, 2007 (Giverny only).
  • 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, John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, June 27-Septembet 30, 2018.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
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