![Claude Monet - Haystacks (Effect of Snow and Sun) [1891] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sZXaenp2xnsEXNfoZhSrnleuRlOARF42RUhlLbytxa4q1KcmW5lGW2vFzm96TMXCkRQ5sT2CoP8dzUiihp-o3nnX3LuREyYIfAgXqBrwkbN2Q-7mVqKwv_RjpygXv9rA=s0-d)
Between summer 1890 and winter 1891 Monet executed about thirty paintings of the haystacks in a field near his house at Giverny. In the midst of this effort, he wrote to the critic Gustave Geoffroy: "I am working very hard, struggling with a series of different effects (haystacks), but at this season the sun sets so fast I cannot follow it. . . . The more I continue, the more I see that a great deal of work is necessary in order to succeed in rendering what I seek." Although Monet had painted multiple versions of a single subject earlier, Haystacks was the first group that he exhibited as a series; in 1891, fifteen were shown at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris.
[Metropolitan Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 65.4 x 92.1 cm]
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