• The poplars trees were located on the banks of a river a few miles up the river from Monet’s home in Giverny, France, in a marsh.
  • Monet painted a portion of the poplars from the riverbank and others from a pontoon uniquely equipped with furrows to hold various canvases.
  • Claude Monet, or in full Oscar-Claude Monet (born November 14, 1840, Paris, France), was a French painter who led and initiated the impressionist painting style.
  • The Garden of Monet at Argenteuil by Claude Monet. ... Poplars at Giverny, Sunrise by Claude Monet.
  • One of the main collections referenced at the Foundation Claude Monet is his ‘Poplars’ series.
  • In the spring of 1891 Monet began work on a series of 23 paintings depicting the poplars which lined the left bank of the river Epte, near Limetz, south of Giverny.
  • In the summer of 1891 Monet learned that a row of poplars on the river Epte, near to his home at Giverny, were to be felled.
  • And there’s an interesting play between the poplars (positive space) and the gaps exposing the sky (negative space). Claude Monet, Poplars on the Banks...
  • Obsessed with this view, Monet paid the owner of the trees not to cut them down until he finished his paintings.
  • Monet painted the tall poplars on the banks of the river Epte near his house at Giverny under varying climatic and seasonal conditions in 1890 and again in 1891.