A frieze composition
The main axes remain parallel to the plane of the canvas. The gaze moves from left to right in a living wall of trunks, sky and leaves rather than towards a single vanishing point.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1887 -1888 · W1156
Two rows of poplars erect a frieze of trunks and foliage under a pink and golden light at the end of the day. Painted around 1887 -1888, this oil on canvas measuring 74 × 92.7 cm, formerly kept at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, today belongs to a private collection and corresponds to Wildenstein 1156.

Look at the work
The first row, darker, occupies the entire width and forms an almost continuous vertical rhythm. Behind it, other trees appear in warmer light; no path or building creates a central point.
Blue, purple and green build the nearby trunks, while pink, gold and orange illuminate the air and leaves in the background. Dense touches make the foliage vibrate without isolating each tree.
The depth does not come from a perspective that leads far away, but from the colorful gap between two parallel rows: one already in shadow, the other still crossed by the sun.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The main axes remain parallel to the plane of the canvas. The gaze moves from left to right in a living wall of trunks, sky and leaves rather than towards a single vanishing point.
Sotheby's describes nearby trees already gained by blues and purples, while the second row retains yellow flashes. This contrast creates depth and locates the time of day.
Monet observed the poplars around Giverny from the 1880s. W1156 and its counterpart W1155 announced the systematic research that he would then devote to the trees of Epte.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W1156 is used. The real WebP measures 3,000 × 2,366 px, reduced from the public source by 4,500 × 3,549 px without artificial enlargement.
The first should remain darker and the second brighter. Melting them into a single wood would remove the essential structure of the painting.
These colors reflect twilight shadow without recourse to black. They must remain present even in areas of dense foliage.
The yellows do not cover the entire sky or all the trees. Their irregular distribution makes you feel the last breakthroughs of the sun between the leaves.
Documented benchmarks
Sotheby's documents Les Peupliers à Giverny, oil on canvas of 74 × 92.7 cm painted around 1887 -1888, former MoMA collection and listed Wildenstein 1156.
Acquired by Boussod, Valadon et Cie in 1892, the painting then went to Denys Cochin and Durand-Ruel before entering the Martin A. Ryerson collection in Chicago.
Ryerson bequeathed the work to Chicago in 1933. It was acquired in 1947 by Silberman, then donated to MoMA in 1951 before its sale at Sotheby's in 2015.
Older editions of the catalog used number 1167. The sheet retains the corrected reference from the 1996 catalog raisonné.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The Poplars at Giverny W1156 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1887 - 1888 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 74 × 92.7 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Private collection, Former collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| Inventory | Former n° MoMA 617.1951 · Wildenstein 1156 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This tree-lined frieze is suitable for a living room, bedroom or library. A gray pink, deep blue or olive green wall and a dark setting extend its twilight light.
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