Object Information

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Apples and Grapes, 1880

Oil on canvas
26 1/16 x 32 3/8 in. (66.2 x 82.3 cm)
Inscribed upper left: Claude Monet 1880
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1152

Wildenstein, Claude Monet, cat rais. 1996 1546; Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1979 1546

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Possibly Paris, La Vie Moderne, Monet, 1880, cat. 2, as Corbeille de fruits [acc. to Wildenstein 1996].

New York, Durand-Ruel, Monet, 1902, cat. 8 [acc. to Wildenstein 1996].

Boston, Copley Hall, Monet, 1905, cat. 2.

New York, Durand-Ruel, Monet, 1907, cat. 17 [acc. to Wildenstein 1996].

Washington DC, The Corcoran Gallery, 1911, cat. 21. [acc. to Wildenstein 1996].

New York, Durand-Ruel, Natures mortes et fleurs, 1913-14, cat. 6 [acc. to Wildenstein 1996].

Chicago, Auditorium Hotel, Tableaux Durand-Ruel, 1915 [acc. to Wildenstein 1996].

The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 297, as Fruit: Apples and Grapes, 1880.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 217, as Fruit: Apples and Grapes, 1880.

Toronto, Canada, Art Gallery, European Paintings Lent in Aid of the Canadian Red Cross, November-December, 1940, cat. 102, as Still Life with Apples and Grapes, 1885.

St. Louis, City Art Museum, Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition, September 25-October 22, 1957, cat. 44 (ill.), as Still Life: Apples and Grapes, 1880; traveled to Minneapolis, Institute of Arts, November 1-December 1, 1957.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March 15-May 11, 1975, cat. 46 (ill.), as Still Life: Apples and Grapes, 1880.

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27-August 31, 1980, cat. 11, as Nature Morte, Pommes et Raisins, 1880.

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces From the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1985, cat. 39 (ill.) as Still Life: Apple and Grapes, 1880; traveled to Fukuoka, Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet 1840-1926, July 22-November 26, 1995, cat. 55 (ill.), as Still Life with Apples and Grapes, 1880.

Washington, DC, The Phillips Collection, Impressionist Still-Life, September 22, 2001 - January 9, 2002 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 17 - June 9, 2002.

Publication History

M.C., “Monet in the Art Institute,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 19 (1925), p.19 (ill.), as Fruits.

George Slocombe, “Giver of Light,” Coronet 3, 5 (March, 1938), p. 19 (ill.), as Still Life: Apples, Grapes, 1880.

Philip Paul Daniels, “Technique of Painting II: A Study of Impressionism,” Coronet (June 1939), p. 101 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 34, as Still Life: Apples and Grapes.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Quarterly 51, 2, (April, 1957), p. 30 (ill.), as Still Life: Apples and Grapes.

William C. Seitz, Claude Monet (New York, 1960), p. 30 (ill.), as Still Life: Apples and Grapes, 1880.

The Art institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 319, as Still Life: Apples and Grapes, 1880.

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 1 (Paris, 1974), pp. 350-351 (ill.), as Nature Morte: Pommes et Raisin, 1880.

Joel Isaacson, Claude Monet, Observation and Reflection (Oxford, 1978), pp.110, 211 (ill.), as Still Life: Apples and Grapes, 1880.

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces From the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1985, cat. 39 (ill.), as Still Life: Apple and Grapes, 1880; traveled to Fukuoka, Art Museum, January 5-February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.

Richard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 67-68, 118 (ill.), as Still Life: Apples and Grapes, 1880.

Andrew Forge, Monet (Chicago, 1995), pp. 24-27, 77, 106 pl. 6 (ill.), as Still Life with Apples and Grapes, 1880.

James N. Wood, ed., Impressionism and Post-Impressionism (Chicago, 2000), p. 64 (ill.), as Still Life with Apples and Grapes, 1880.

Ownership History

Bought from the artist by Cahuzac in November 1880 as Fruits [this and the following information according to Wildenstein 1996]. Durand-Ruel, c. 1883. Catholina Lambert, Paterson, US. Durand-Ruel, 1895; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), December 1915; bequeathed to the Art Institute, Chicago, 1933.