Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots

Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots is a 1890 landscape painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet. It is now on display in the Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 55.974.0.683.[2]

Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots
English: Oat Field with Red Poppies
ArtistClaude Monet
Year1890
CatalogueW.1258
Mediumoil painting on canvas
MovementImpressionism
Landscape painting
SubjectAn oat field with red poppy near Giverny
Dimensions65 cm × 92 cm (26 in × 36 in)[1]
LocationMusée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg
Accession1948

Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots belongs to a series of five views of fields around Giverny painted in the summer of 1890. It was bought for the museum in 1948.[1][2] It was one of several works bought with the insurance money from the disastrous 1947 fire of the Musée des Beaux-Arts.[3]

References

  1. Pfenninger, Margaret (February 2008). Les collections du musée d'art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg. Strasbourg: Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. p. 33. ISBN 978-2-901833-82-6.
  2. "Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots". navigart.fr/mamcs. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
  3. Jacquot, Dominique; Knoery, Franck (October 2009). Hans Haug, homme de musées. Une passion à l'oeuvre. Strasbourg: Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-2-35125-071-6.
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