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Claude Monet - Grainstack, Impression in Pinks and Blues 1891. Monet painted six of his grainstacks
("meule" in French) compositions already in 1888, and then fully realized his obsession with the subject
starting in the autumn of 1890. This particular Meule is one of three canvases that are three inches taller
than any of the others in format. Its pointed top rising to the upper edge of the canvas and its side cropped,
the massive stack in the foreground is transcribed with short dashes of richly muted sunset colors, as is
everything observed near and far, to the shadowy horizon of purplish hills visible in the distance across the
Seine. - art-Monet.com