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Claude Monet
French, 1840–1926
Spring in Giverny
1890
In 1883, Monet moved to Giverny, a small village northwest of Paris, where he cultivated his famous garden and painted the surrounding countryside. Touches of green and white in the foreground of this image lead our eyes to a screen of trees, through which we can just make out the white walls of a house. By using richly varied brushstrokes and excluding distinct points of interest, Monet draws our attention to the color and texture of the painting’s surface.
Image Caption
Claude Monet, Spring in Giverny, 1890, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.616
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
25 1/2 x 31 7/8 in. (64.8 x 81 cm)
Frame: 35 3/4 x 42 x 3 3/8 in. (90.8 x 106.7 x 8.6 cm)
Object Number
1955.616
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
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Paris; Galeries Durand-Ruel.. Exposition de Tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir et Sisley.. April 1899.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Six: Impressionist Paintings.. Opened Sept. 18, 1956.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Wildenstein, Daniel. Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné. 5 volumes. Lausanne & Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1974-1991. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Charles F. Stuckey, ec.. Monet: A Retrospective.. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin/Scribner.. c. 1985.. Brooks, John H. Monet in Massachusetts. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985. Richard H. Love.. Louis Ritman: From Chicago to Giverny.. Chicago: Haase-Mumm Publishing.. 1989.. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.. Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings. Feb. 7-April 29, 1990; Art Institute of Chicago, May 19-Aug. 12, 1990; Royal Academy of Arts, London, Sept. 7-Dec. 9, 1990. Cat. by Paul Tucker.. 1990.. The Chunichi Shimbun.. The World of Impressionism and Pleinairism. Matsuzakaya Museum of Art, Nagoya, March 21-April 28, 1991; Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, May 3-June 16, 1991; Hiroshima Museum of Art, June 22-July 28, 1991.. 1991.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Kern, Steven, et al. A Passion for Renoir: Sterling and Francine Clark Collect, 19161951. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1996 Daniel Wildenstein. Monet: Catalogue Raisonné, 4 vols. (in English, French, German).. Wildenstein Institute and Paris: Taschen France and Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag.. 1996. Holst, Christian von, and Christofer Conrad. Claude Monet: Fields in Spring. Exhibition catalogue. Translated by John S. Southard. Stuttgart: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz; New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], 2006. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
The artist, sold to Durand-Ruel, Oct. 1890; [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, 1890–1933, sold to Clark, 20 June 1933]; Robert Sterling Clark (1933–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.