Stacks of Wheat
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)1891
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Materials & printing
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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Why is it this affordable?
A thin, flat margin on every piece — just enough to keep the store running. Most of what you pay is the print itself. We only sell sizes that reproduce at full quality, and we don’t mark up the large sizes the way most shops do.
About this work
Of all the motifs that preoccupied Monet in his exploration of changing light effects, grain stacks are among the most iconic. He captured them at various times of the year and at different moments of the day. When these works were shown in an 1891 exhibition, they were widely praised by his peers. One critic, Octave Mirbeau, wrote that the works conveyed “the drama of the earth.” Since Monet rarely made drawings, this sheet may have been a potential illustration for Mirbeau’s article. The softness of the chalk avoids harsh contours and, in turn, better mimics the artist’s painting technique.
- Medium
- Black chalk on cream laid paper
- Original size
- Primary/secondary supports: 18.2 × 25.4 cm (7 3/16 × 10 in.)
Museum record · 1 owner · 3 exhibitions
Provenance
- Private collector, Pennsylvania, to May 1991; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, May 8, 1991, lot 101, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibitions
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection", March 15 - June 15, 2014.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Monet and Chicago," Sept. 5, 2020-June 14, 2021.
