Claude Monet
Wheatfield, 1881
On view
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Oil on canvas, 65,7 x 82 cm
Signed and dated lower left: Claude Monet 81
Inv.-no. MB-Mon-09
With a simple horizontal arrangement of landscape and sky, Claude Monet composed a picture space that accentuates the groups of poplars. He painted the surfaces with nuanced brushwork. Fine gradations of color, sophisticated inner structures, and the play of the cirrus clouds add a sense of exuberance to the overall static concept. As is so often the case in Monet’s paintings, a path in the foreground serves to direct the gaze in the composition.
7me Exposition des Artistes Indépendants, Salons du Panorama de Reichshoffen, Paris, (probably March 1–31) 1882, no. 88
Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, American Art Galleries, New York, April 1886; National Academy of Design, New York, May/June 1886, no. 158 (?)
Paintings by Old Masters, and Modern Foreign and American Painters, Together with an Exhibition of the Work of Claude Monet the Impressionist, Union League Club, New York, February 12–14, 1891, no. 52
Pictures by Claude Monet, Lotos Club, New York, January 1899, no. 4
The Springtime of Impressionism, Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, April 3–May 2, 1948, no. 13
Claude Monet, City Art Museum of St. Louis, September 25–October 22, 1957; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 1–December 1, 1957, no. 48
Highlights of the 19th Century, Art Institute, Akron, 1959
Claude Monet: Painter of Light, City Art Gallery, Auckland, April 19–June 9, 1985; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, June 21–August 4, 1985; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, August 14–September 29, 1985, no. 8
Claude Monet, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, April 29–June 30, 1986, no. 33
Claude Monet, 1840–1926, The Art Institute of Chicago, July 22–November 26, 1995, no. 59
Maestros del Impresionismo, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, November 1, 1998–February 28, 1999, no. 189
Monet & Japan, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, March 9–June 11, 2001; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, July 7–September 16, 2001, no. 10
Monet: The Seine and the Sea, 1878–1883, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, August 6–October 26, 2003, no. 45
Monets Garten, Kunsthaus Zürich, October 29, 2004–February 27, 2005, no. 19
Monet in Normandy, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, June 17–September 17, 2006; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, October 15, 2006–January 14, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, February 18–May 20, 2007, no. 35
Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, June 9–September 16, 2007; Cleveland Museum of Art, October 21, 2007–January 13, 2008; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, February 21–June 1, 2008; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, June 22–September 21, 2008; Detroit Institute of Arts, October 12, 2008–January 8, 2009
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, Denver Art Museum, October 20, 2019–February 2, 2020
Monet: Orte, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, February 22–July 19, 2020, no. 63
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
ca. 1886, William H. Fuller,
New York
August 31, 1897, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, acquired from the above
November 12, 1897, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, acquired from the
above
February 28, 1898, William H. Fuller, New York, acquired from the above
1899, Henry White Cannon, USA
n.d., Mrs. Henry White Cannon, New York, inherited from the above
1947, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, acquired as gift from
the above, inv.-no. 47.197
November 12, 2012, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 19, consigned by the above
Octave Mirbeau, “Notes sur l'art: Cl. Monet,” in La France (November 21, 1884), p. 84
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 35 (February 1948), p. 4–7
Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, exh. cat. National Academy of Design / American Art Galleries, New York 1886, no. 158
Paintings by Old Masters, and Modern Foreign and American Painters, Together with an Exhibition of the Work of Claude Monet the Impressionist, exh. cat. The Union League Club, New York 1891, no. 52, p. 15
Pictures by Claude Monet, exh. cat. Lotos Club, New York 1899, no. 4
William H. Fuller, Claude Monet and his Paintings, New York 1899, p. 16
The Springtime of Impressionism, exh. cat. Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus 1948, no. 13
Claude Monet, exh. cat. City Art Museum, St. Louis 1957, no. 48
Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 1, Lausanne 1974, no. 676, p. 404, ill. p. 405
Helen O. Borowitz, “The Rembrandt and Monet of Marcel Proust,” in The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 70, 86 (1983), ill. p. 13
Claude Monet: Painter of Light, exh. cat. City Art Gallery, Auckland 1985, no. 8
Charles F. Stuckey, Monet: A Retrospective, New York 1985, ill. p. 116
Claude Monet, exh. cat. Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid 1986, no. 33
John House, Monet: Nature into Art, New Haven/London 1986, p. 19, 54, 180, ill. p. 23
Karin Sagner-Düchting, Claude Monet 1840–1926: Ein Fest für die Augen, Cologne 1990, ill. p. 119
Claude Monet 1840–1926, exh. cat. The Art Institute, Chicago 1995, no. 59
Ruth Berson, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874–1886. Documentation, vol. 2, San Francisco/Seattle 1996, no. VII-88 (Sentier dans les blés), p. 207, ill. p. 223
Daniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue Raisonné. Werkverzeichnis, vol. 2, Cologne 1996, no. 676, p. 254, ill. p. 254
Geneviève Morgan (ed.), Monet: The Artist Speaks, San Francisco 1996, ill. p. 42/43
Karin Sagner-Düchting, Claude Monet 1840-1926: A Feast for the Eyes, Cologne 1998, p. 202
Maestros des Impresionismo, exh. cat. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México, D.F. 1998, no. 189
European Paintings of the 19th Century, coll. cat. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland 1999, vol. 2, p. 156
Monet & Japan, exh. cat. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 2001, no. 10
Marco Goldin, L'impressionismo e l'età di Van Gogh, Conegliano 2002, ill. p. 162
Monet: The Seine and the Sea 1878–1883, exh. cat. National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2003, no. 45
John House, Impressionism. Paint and Politics, New Haven 2004, p. 163, ill. p. 147
Michael Leja, Looking Askance. Skepticism and American Art from Eakins to Duchamp, London 2004, ill. p. 7
Monets Garten, exh. cat. Kunsthaus, Zurich 2004, ill. p. 19
Monet in Normandy, exh. cat. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco 2006, no. 35
Claudio Zambianchi, Monet et la pittura en plein air, Florence 2007, p. 56, ill. p. 57
Sisley: L’impressionniste, exh. cat. Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence 2017, p. 46, ill. p. 46, fig. 32
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 50, p. 17, 158, ill. p. 163, 164/165
Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature, exh. cat. Denver Art Museum, Denver 2019, no. 63, ill. p. 172
Monet: Orte, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2020, no. 63, ill. p. 172
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