About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Poppy Field (Giverny), 1890-91

Oil on canvas
24 1/16 x 36 5/8 in. (61.2 x 93.1 cm)
Inscribed, lower right: Claude Monet 91
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kimball Collection, 1922.4465

Wildenstein, Claude Monet, biographie et catalogue raisonné, 1979 1253

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Fine Arts Society Building, Loan Exhibition, cat. 40.

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Monet, 1895, cat. 3.

Boston, St. Botolph Club, Monet, 1895, cat. 25.

Buffalo, Library Building, 5th Annual Exhibition, 1896, cat. 57.

Possibly Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Second Annual Exhibition, 1897-1898.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 84.

Albi, France, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Tresors impressionnistes du Musée, June 27–August 31, 1980, cat. 13 (ill.).

Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, A Day in the Country: Impressionism and the French Landscape, June 28–September 16, 1984, cat. 103 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1984–January 6, 1985 and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, February 8–April 22, 1985.

Auckland City Art Gallery, NZI Corporation Limited, Claude Monet Painter of Light, 1985, cat. 20 (ill.); traveled to Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, June 18–July 28, 1985 and Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, August 6–September 22, 1985.

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the ‘90’s: The Series Paintings, February 7-April 29, 1990, cat 12 (ill.); traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, May 19-July 21, 1990 and London, Royal Academy of Arts, September 7-December 9, 1990.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet 1840-1926, July 22-November 26, 1995, cat. 95 (ill.).

Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum, On View to the World: Paintings at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, 1898, May-August 16, 1998, no cat.

Florence, Sala Bianca di Palazzo Pitti, Claude Monet: La Poesia della Luce, July 2-August 29, 1999, no cat. no. (ill.).

Publication History

M. C., “Monets in the Art Institute,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 19 (1925), p. 19.

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings and Drawings (Chicago, 1932), p. 164.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 321.

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet, Biographie et catalogue raisonné vol. 3 (Lausanne, 1974), p. 132, no. 1253 (ill.).

John House, Monet: Nature Into Art (New Haven and London, 1986), p. 199 (ill.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Catalogue raisonné vol. 3 (Cologne, 1996), no. 1253 (ill.).

Ownership History

Possibly bought from the artist by Hamman for Knoedler in September 1891 and sent to New York [this and the following information according to Wildenstein 1996]. Potter Palmer, Chicago. Durand-Ruel, New York, 1893. William Walace Kimball (died 1904), Chicago, 1901; by descent to his wife, Eveline M. Kimball (died 1921), Chicago; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1922.