Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)

1. The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 9, 1891, for 3,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1891–1901 (no. 938, as Meules, fin de l’été), 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 Charles Fairchild, Boston, June 26, 1891, for 5,000 francs; returned to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Aug. 4, 1891, in exchange for Monet’s Sur la falaise à Pourville, 1882 [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, Brouillard for 1888–91 (as Meules, fin de l’été): “Sold on 26 June 1891 to Ch. Fairchilds [sic], 191 Commonwealth Av. Boston, for 5 000 F. Exchanged for another Monet (Wildenstein 755) on 4 August 1891,” 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. Fairchild exchanged the painting now in the Art Institute’s collection for Sur la falaise à Pourville (1882) now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, see Wildenstein 1996]; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, Aug. 4, 1891, for 6,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1888–1901 and Brouillard 1888–91 (no. 938, as Meules, fin de l’été), 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]; by descent to the Palmer Family; by descent to Arthur M. Wood and Pauline Palmer Wood (d. 1984), Lake Forest, Illinois; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, beginning in 1985 [The painting was given to the Art Institute of Chicago in undivided fractional interests beginning in 1985. The Art Institute received the final fractional interest for one hundred percent ownership in 2007].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition d’oeuvres récentes de Claude Monet, May 1891, cat. 1, as Meules. (Fin de l’été.). Appartient à M. Durand-Ruel.
• Boston, Copley Society, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Mar. 1905, cat. 9, as Meules. Fin de l’Eté. 1891. Lent by Mrs. Potter Palmer.
• Possibly Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, May 10–Aug., 1910, cat. 34, as Haystacks.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 88 (ill.).
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–Sept. 16, 1984, cat. 108 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 23, 1984–Jan. 6, 1985; Paris, Galeries Nationales d’Exposition, Grand Palais, as L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, Feb. 4–Apr. 22, 1985.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, Oct. 17–Dec. 14, 1986, not in cat.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the ’90s: The Series Paintings, February 7–April 29, 1990, cat. 17 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, May 19–August 12, 1990; London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7–December 9, 1990 [Boston and Chicago only].
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago’s Dream, a World’s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1993, Nov. 1, 1993–Jan. 9, 1994, not in cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet, 1840–1926, July 22–Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 97 (ill.).
• Florence, Sala Bianca di Palazzo Pitti, Claude Monet: La poesia della luce; Sette capolavori dell’Art Institute di Chicago a Palazzo Pitti, June 2–Aug. 29, 1999, no cat. no. (ill.).
• Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Monets Vermächtnis: Serie—Ordnung und Obsession, Sept. 28, 2001–Jan. 6, 2002, no cat. no. (ill.).
• Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 75 (ill.).

• Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition d’oeuvres récentes de Claude Monet, exh. cat. (Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1891), p. 13, cat. 1.
• “Claude Monet Exhibit Opens,” Boston Post, Mar. 15, 1905.
• Copley Society, Boston, Loan Collection of Paintings by Claude Monet and Eleven Sculptures by August Rodin, exh. cat. (Copley Society, 1905), p. 13, cat. 9.
• Possibly Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), cat. 34.
• Grace Seiberling, “The Evolution of an Impressionist,” in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 32, 33.
• Susan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 145, cat. 88 (ill.).
• Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné, vol. 3, Peintures, 1887–1898 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1979), pp. 38; 42, n. 1032; 47, n. 1086; 138; 139, cat. 1269 (ill.); 262, letter 1114.
• Richard R. Brettell, “Monet’s Haystacks Reconsidered,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 11, 1 (Fall 1984), pp. 7; 10, fig. 1; 11; 16, pl. 6; 19; 21, n. 6, n. 7, n. 17.
• Andrea P. A. Belloli, ed., A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), p. 364.
• Richard R. Brettell, “The Fields of France,” in A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, ed. Andrea P. A. Belloli, exh. cat. (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984), pp. 246; 260–62; 267, no. 108 (ill.).
• Richard R. Brettell, “La campagne française,” in Réunion des Musées Nationaux, L’impressionnisme et le paysage français, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985), pp. 261; 282–91, no. 108 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1985-86 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1986), pp. 6, pl. 8; 28; 71.

Water Lilies

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Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare

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Cliff Walk at Pourville

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Water Lily Pond

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The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

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Bordighera

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Stacks of Wheat (End of Day, Autumn)

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Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)

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