Art Institute of Chicago
Poppy Field (Giverny)
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)LinkedCulture matchlcp-8e614afd9c71
- Date
- 1890–91
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 4783
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.
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- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection
- Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); possibly sold to Hamman, Paris, as agent for Knoedler and Company, New York, Sept. 1891 [per Wildenstein 1996)]. Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, by January 24, 1893 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1894–1905 (no. 1015, as Coquelicots), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 5, 2013, curatorial object file]; on deposit with Durand-Ruel, New York, by Jan. 24, 1893 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, deposit book for 1888–93 (no. 5041, as Champ de coquelicots), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 5, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Jan. 24, 1893, for 5,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1894–1905 (no. 1015 as Coquelicots), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 5, 2013, curatorial object file]; 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.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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