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The Art Institute of Chicago — public domain (CC0). Gift of Arthur M. Wood, Sr. in memory of Pauline Palmer Wood Source

3 Lot

Claude Monet

French, 1840–1926

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)

Date: 1890–91
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 60 × 100.5 cm (23 5/8 × 39 9/16 in.); Framed: 75.6 × 116.6 × 7.4 cm (29 3/4 × 45 7/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
Inscription: Signed and dated lower left
Department: Impressionist & Modern Art

Estimate £18,000,000 – 25,000,000

Offered in Impressionist & Modern Art — Evening Sale, 3 September 2026

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A Under raking light

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Relief

Derived from this photograph by shape-from-shading, as a reading aid. A measured relief map requires photometric stereo and accompanies the full condition report.

B Catalogue note

Provenance

Private collection, Paris
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989

Exhibited

Paris, exhibition of the Meules series, 1891

Literature

Wildenstein, Monet: catalogue raisonné, no. 1266

Condition

Unlined and in outstanding state. The impasto in the sky retains its full relief.

This is a summary. A full written condition report, with raking-light and ultraviolet photography, is issued on request and forms part of the description.

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