Claude MonetFranciaország, 1840–1926Irises
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Hol van most a(z) „Irises”? Art Institute of Chicago, Terem 243, Chicago. Igen, most kiállítva. Ellenőrizve 2026. november 2.
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Nearly six and a half feet square, Claude Monet’s Irises (1914–17) is at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Plant and flower shapes float across a thickly worked surface suggesting water, without a clear horizon or stable depth. The canvas stayed in Giverny long after Monet died in 1926. Shrapnel damaged parts of it during the Second World War, and it resurfaced in the 1950s. Curator Katherine Kuh bought it from Katia Granoff’s Paris gallery in 1956, seeing affinities with contemporary large abstract paintings. On view in gallery 243.
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Approximately six and a half feet square, Irises is one of a series of large paintings Claude Monet undertook during World War I experimenting with familiar motifs on an ever-expanding scale. Lacking a discernible horizon or clear sense of depth, the viewer is both on top of and submerged in this encrusted and disorienting surface, suggestive of water, on which various vegetal and floral forms float.
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Together with other related canvases, this work remained in the artist’s Giverny studio long after his death in 1926 and was only rediscovered in the 1950s, having suffered localized damage by shrapnel from shells during World War II. In 1956 the Art Institute’s pioneering curator of modern art, Katherine Kuh, bought this painting from Katia Granoff's gallery in Paris. Kuh recognized a formal affinity between Monet’s late experimental painting and the public’s growing interest in large-scale, abstract works like those by Jackson Pollock, whose Greyed Rainbow entered the Art Institute’s collection in 1955.
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Claude Monet életében
A teljes életút1883–1926 · Munkahely
Giverny
1912
Diagnosis: double cataract
Doctors diagnosed Monet with cataracts in both eyes. The illness altered his perception of color: his late pre-operation paintings are suffused with red and brown tones.
1914
Conception of the grand decorative cycle
At Clemenceau's urging, Monet conceived the building of a large new studio for a "decorative cycle of paintings devoted to the water garden." The main work on the cycle took place in 1916–1921.
10 February 1914
Death of his son Jean
After a prolonged illness, the artist's eldest son Jean Monet died. Jean's widow, Blanche Hoschedé, took on the care of Monet.
