A living skyline
The succession of peaks replaces a regular line. Each willow has a different silhouette, which gives rhythm to the horizontal format.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · Giverny · 1889 · W1242
A row of willows crosses a meadow under a sky where the setting sun mixes yellow, orange, pink and purple. Signed Claude Monet and dated 89 lower right, this oil on canvas measuring 73.5 × 92.6 cm belongs to a private collection and corresponds to Wildenstein 1242.

Look at the work
The trees form a frieze in the middle of the canvas, with trunks visible in places and crowns that vary in height. The meadow rises slightly in the foreground; the sky retains a large place above the horizon.
Yellow and orange surround the trees, then cool towards pink and mauve. The foliage mixes dark green, blue and brown, while the meadow takes on red touches that respond to the sunset.
In W1242, light does not come from a solar disk: it accumulates around trees and transforms their contours into vibration.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The succession of peaks replaces a regular line. Each willow has a different silhouette, which gives rhythm to the horizontal format.
The tree masses remain crossed by green, blue and purple. They remain colored even when they stand out in front of the bright sky.
Painted in 1889 in Giverny, the canvas retains the chromatic intensity of recent landscapes while returning to the meadows and trees near Monet's house.
Reference image
Only one exact image of W1242 is used. The real WebP measures 1024 × 813 px and maintains the best reliable public resolution, without artificial enlargement.
Heights, spacings and contours should not be regularized. Their irregularity forms the main design of the work.
Yellow, orange, pink and purple should remain noticeable. A single uniform shade would suppress the progression of the sunset.
Blue, green and brown build trees in the shadows. A covering black would make the silhouettes heavy and depthless.
Documented benchmarks
The Sotheby's notice documents Willows at sunset, oil on canvas from 1889, 73.5 × 92.6 cm, signed and dated lower right and listed Wildenstein 1242.
After his stay in the Creuse, Monet returned to the meadows and trees of Giverny, motifs that he observed daily before his future series of poplars.
The row of willows, the yellow and pink sky and the red meadow distinguish this work from the Willows of Giverny W1241.
The work is documented as lot 36 of the Modern Evening Auction of Sotheby's, with its signature, date and precise dimensions.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Willows at sunset W1242 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1889 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73.5 × 92.6 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Private collection, Work documented by Sotheby's |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 1242 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This warm harmony is suitable for a living room, bedroom or dining room. A pale ocher, gray pink or olive green wall and a dark setting bring out the evening sky.
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