Apples and Grapes by Claude Monet - 1880 - 66.5 × 82.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago Apples and Grapes by Claude Monet - 1880 - 66.5 × 82.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago

Apples and Grapes

oil on canvas • 66.5 × 82.5 cm
  • Claude Monet - 14 November 1840 - 5 December 1926 Claude Monet 1880

From 1879 to 1880, Claude Monet was in the mood for painting still lifes, knowing that they would be more readily marketable than his landscapes. In Apples and Grapes, however, he employed the complexity of color, light, and texture found in his most Impressionist landscapes. This is particularly evident in the extensive cloth surface—the play of light on the horizontal brushstrokes (indicating the folds in the tablecloth) recalls earlier canvases in which Monet used similar short horizontals of variegated colors to suggest water rippling in the sunlight.

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