Poppy Field (Giverny)

In July 1890, Claude Monet began four almost identically scaled canvases showing poppy fields near his home in Giverny. Although he did not consider these to be a series, like the 25 paintings of stacks of wheat that he began that same summer, the works certainly show his growing interest in developing several canvases simultaneously. They also demonstrate more uniform brushwork than his earlier landscapes.