''Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots'' is a 1890
landscape painting by the
French
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Impressionist
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Claude Monet. It is now on display in the
Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain of
Strasbourg
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, France. Its inventory number is 55.974.0.683.
''Champ d'avoine aux coquelicots'' belongs to a series of five views of fields around
Giverny painted in the summer of 1890. It was bought for the museum in 1948.
It was one of several works bought with the insurance money from the disastrous 1947 fire of the
Musée des Beaux-Arts.
See also
*
List of paintings by Claude Monet
References
External links
''Champ d’avoine aux coquelicots'' on the museum's website
Paintings in the collection of the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
Paintings by Claude Monet
1890 paintings
Oil on canvas paintings
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