The year 1890 was a watershed moment in Claude Monet’s life-he turned fifty, bought property for the first time and negotiated the purchase of Édouard Manet’s Olympia and its ensuing placement in the French national collection.
Any of these could have been the most notable occurrence of that period, but 1890 was also the year that Monet painted the most definitive artistic series of the nineteenth century - his Meules.
Claude Monet | Meules, 1890 | Sotheby's