Claude Monet - Still Life with Apples And Grapes 1880

Still Life with Apples And Grapes 1882
Still Life with Apples And Grapes
1880 66x82cm Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

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From the Art Institute of Chicago :
Claude Monet probably painted this and other still lifes in 1879–80, knowing that they would be more readily marketable than his landscapes. In Apples and Grapes, however, he employed the complexity of color, light, and texture found in his most Impressionist landscapes. This is particularly evident in the extensive cloth surface—the play of light on the horizontal brushstrokes (indicating the folds in the tablecloth) recalls earlier canvases in which Monet used similar short horizontals of variegated colors to suggest water rippling in the sunlight.