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Claude Monet (1840-1926), was the leading member of the Impressionist group. From about 1890 Claude Monet began to paint series of pictures of one subject. The first being the Haystacks or Grainstacks and the Poplars, other series are those of Rouen Cathedral, and, most famous of all, the Water-lilies.

In the 1880s and 1890s, Monet worked on “series” paintings. Monet painted the same subject again and again, but every one of his series paintings is different, for each subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions. The viewing is impressive, when the series group together. However, Monet’s paintings are scattered in collections around the world, it’s usually only in special exhibitions that his series paintings are seen as a group.

Grainstack, Sun in the Mist	Grainstack in the Morning, Snow Effect
Grainstack in Overcast Weather, Snow Effect	Grainstack at Sunset, Winter
Grainstack at Sunset

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In October 1890 Monet wrote a letter to the art critic Gustave Geffroy about the haystacks series he was painting, saying: “I’m hard at it, working stubbornly on a series of different effects, but at this time of year the sun sets so fast that it’s impossible to keep up with it … the further I get, the more I see that a lot of work has to be done in order to render what I’m looking for: ‘instantaneity’, the ‘envelope’ above all, the same light spread over everything… I’m increasingly obsessed by the need to render what I experience, and I’m praying that I’ll have a few more good years left to me because I think I may make some progress in that direction…”