It was in Giverny, after the harvest of 1890, that Claude Monet performed his first truly autonomous series using different daylight.
He concentrated on one of the imposing and ephemeral stacks of unthreshed sheaves of wheat, an expression of the ancestral rural genius which was still perpetuated at the time every autumn in this countryside.
Today, right in the place, stands the Museum of Impressionisms with its beautiful garden that the new director Cyrille Sciama wishes to enrich with a few contemporary sculptures (a bronze tree by Giuseppe Penone has just been planted there).
Inside, this season, we discover other millstones.
Because those of the master quickly spread.
To America.
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A John Leslie Breck (1859-1899) notably used the motif for his
Morning Fog and Sun
of 1892. And from the previous year, he had appropriated the principle of the systematic series.
Attesting to it, hung nearby and rigorously aligned, his twelve studies
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