Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) by Claude Monet: The monumental stacks that Claude Monet depicted in his series Stacks of Wheat rose fifteen to twenty feet and…

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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…