Art Institute of Chicago
Bordighera
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926)LinkedCulture matchlcp-8e614afd9c71
- Date
- 1884
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 81537
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.
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- Credit line
- Potter Palmer Collection
- Provenance
- The artist (d. 1926); sold to Isidore Montaignac, Paris, as the agent for Knoedler and Company, New York, September 1891 [this and the following per Wildenstein 1996]; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, September 1891; by descent to the Potter Family; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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