1890
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Stack of Wheat (Thaw, Sunset) is a 1890 oil by Claude Monet, a Impressionism work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a big stack of wheat in the painting. The wheat is painted in warm colors, with the sun setting behind it. This series of paintings was done near Monet's home in Giverny, where he would paint the same scene many times to show how light changes. Check out the work of Claude Monet to see more of his wheat paintings.
The monumental stacks that Claude Monet depicted in his series Stacks of Wheat rose fifteen to twenty feet and stood just outside the artist’s farmhouse at Giverny. Through 1890 and 1891, he worked on this series both in the field, painting simultaneously at several easels, and in the studio, refining pictorial harmonies. In May 1891, Monet hung fifteen of these canvases next to each other in one small room in the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. An unprecedented critical and financial success, the exhibition marked a breakthrough in Monet’s career, as well as in the history of French art. In…
The artist (d. 1926); possibly sold to "Hamman," the director of Roland Knoedler’s gallery, Paris, as agent for Knoedler and Company, New York, Sept. 1891 [per Wildenstein 1996. According to the Frick Collection’s online “Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America,” Hamman was the director of the Paris gallery]; sold at the Knoedler, New York, sale, Chickering Hall, New York, Apr. 11, 1893, lot 77, to Durand-Ruel, New York, and Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Paris, in half-shares, for 6,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1888–93 (no. 1060, as Meules, le dégel,…
Possibly Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition d’oeuvres récentes de Claude Monet, May 1891, cat. 12, as Meule. (Fin du jour.). New York, Fine Arts Society Building, Loan Exhibition, Feb. 1893, cat. 41, as The Haystack —Thaw. Lent by Mr. M. Knoedler. New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exposition of Forty Paintings by Claude Monet, Jan. 12–27, 1895, cat. 44, as “Meule—Dégel—Soleil couchant.” 1891. Boston, St. Botolph Club, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet, Feb. 4–16, 1895, cat. 11, as Meule. Le Degel. Soleil couchant. 1891. Munich, Kunstausstellungsgebäude, Internationalen…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Oscar-Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14, 1840, and raised from the age of five in Le Havre, where he began selling charcoal caricatures as a teenager.
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