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Artist: Claude Monet (1840-1926) (5)

Period: 19th century (9230)

Type: oil paint (473)

Keywords
flowers (249) | still lifes (75) | vases (119)

Image sets with this image: Impressionist paintings |en exposicion 3 |monet

Vase of Flowers

1881-82

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Oil on canvas

Width: 81.8 cm ( canvas ); Height: 100.4 cm ( canvas ); Width: 102.7 cm ( frame ); Height: 121.7 cm ( frame ); Depth: 10.3 cm ( frame );

Inscription

Signed, bottom right & recto, Claude Monet

Acquisition (source, method, date)
Courtauld, Samuel; gift; 1932
P.1932.SC.275

About this work
In the early 1880s, Monet focused almost exclusively on painting still-lifes. His letters attest that this lavish arrangement of wild mallows gave him particular trouble. He eventually abandoned the picture, kept it in his studio for forty years and only completed it in the last years of his life. Areas of later reworking are particularly visible in some of the petals and leaves. (Permanent collection label)

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London