Poplars on the Banks of the Epte

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Poplars on the Banks of the Epte: Claude Monet

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Claude Monet Oil Painting - Poplars on the Banks of the Epte

Keywords: Poplars, Banks, Epte

Work Overview: Poplars on the Banks of the Epte
Claude Monet
Date: 1891
Style: Impressionism
Genre: landscape
Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 92.4 x 73.7 cm
Inscription summary: Signed; Dated
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In the summer of 1891 Monet learned that a row of poplars on the river Epte, near to his home at Giverny, were to be felled. Monet paid for them to be left standing long enough for him to paint them. In all he executed twenty-three paintings of this scene, and exhibited a group of them together in 1892. Eleven of these show this same view at different times of day and in different weather conditions. A particularly marked feature of this work is its combination of a strong surface pattern, emphasised by vigorous brushwork, and the suggestion of pictorial depth conveyed by the continuous zig-zag of trees leading back into the distance.

Although dated 1890, this work was actually painted the following year. In the spring of 1891 Monet began work on a series of 23 paintings depicting the poplars which lined the left bank of the river Epte, near Limetz, south of Giverny. On 18 June the town decided to auction off the trees. Monet persuaded a wood merchant to buy them jointly with him, on the condition that they were left standing for a few more months to enable the artist to finish his series.

The works were painted from a flat-bottomed boat which Monet borrowed from fellow artist Gustave Caillebotte. From this low vantage-point the trees are viewed silhouetted against the sky and their formal qualities are stressed.

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