''Haystack Near Giverny'' is an oil on canvas painting by

Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (, ; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of Impressionism painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his ...

, from 1884. It is held in the

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, in

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. It is a precursor to his 1890s Haystacks series. It was bought by Paul Durand-Ruel in 1906 and in spring 1907 he sold it on to Ivan Morozov. A letter from Durand-Ruel on 27 May 1907 confirms he received 10,000 francs from Morozov for that work and 40,000 francs for '' A Corner in the Garden at Montgeron'' - the former arrived in Moscow on 10 October that year. His collection was seized by the state after the

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- the painting was assigned to the State Museum of Modern Western Art until its closure in 1948, then moved to its present location. Бессонова М. А., Георгиевская Е. Б. Франция второй половины XIX — XX века. Собрание живописи / Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина. — М.: Красная площадь, 2001. — 399 с. — ISBN 5-900743-58-6, page 183

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