Stacks of Wheat, Sunset, Snow Effect

The artwork

"The sun sets so quickly that I can't keep up with it," Monet wrote while painting the grainstacks; in this picture he managed to hold on to a sunset over the snow. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• Two stacks in the snow, under a red and orange sky.
• Intense pinks, violets and oranges, for a wall that gets noticed.
• A gift for anyone who loves bold colours.

He wrote it on 7 October 1890 to Gustave Geffroy, an art critic and his friend. Monet was painting the stacks in the field next to his house at Giverny, in Normandy, and he was after what he called "instantaneity": above all the envelope, that is, the same light that wraps everything at a given moment. At sunset that moment lasts only a few minutes, which is why the race against the sun was so hard.

He kept going until February 1891, when there was snow in the field. Here the sky is ablaze with red and orange, and the snow beneath the stacks takes on the pinks and violets of evening.

The original is in the Art Institute of Chicago, where it arrived with the collection of Potter Palmer, a Chicago businessman and collector.

In a living room, above a sofa or a fireplace, it brings the colour of a sunset in the depth of winter. It will appeal to anyone who loves the hours when the light changes.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass