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Four Trees: Claude Monet

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Artist:Claude Monet
Date:1891
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:32 1/4 x 32 1/8 in. (81.9 x 81.6 cm)

During summer and fall 1891 Monet painted a series of views of poplars along the Epte River, at Giverny. Completion of the series was temporarily threatened when the village of Limetz, across the Epte from Giverny, decided to sell the trees at auction. Monet paid a local lumber merchant to ensure that the trees remained standing until he finished his work. He painted some of the pictures from the riverbank, and others, such as this one, from a boat specially outfitted with grooves to hold multiple canvases. Like the Haystacks, the Poplars were first exhibited as a series. Fifteen were shown in Paris in 1892.

This series was created in the summer and fall of 1891. The trees were in a marsh along the banks of the Epte River, a few kilometers upstream from Monet’s home and studio. To reach his floating painting studio that was moored in place, he went by a small boat up the nearby waterway to where it joined the mainstream. There is an interesting story regarding these poplars – the trees actually belonged to the commune of Limetz that put them up for auction before Monet had completed all of his paintings. At a certain point Monet was forced into buying the trees because he still wasn’t finished with his paintings. After he finished the series he sold the trees back to the lumber merchant who wanted them.

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