On May 15, Sotheby's will auction Claude Monet's Meules à Giverny ... struggling with a series of different effects (haystacks), but at this season the sun sets so fast I cannot follow it ...

Grainstack in Sunshine, 1891; Haystack, Morning Snow Effect, 1891; Wheatstacks (Sunset, Snow Effect) 1890-91; Grainstack (Sunset) 1891. In Monet's Haystacks, Josh Rosen on piano and John Voigt on ...

Monet started painting haystacks in the mid-1880s, about 15 years after that pivotal exhibition in Paris. His best-known haystack works are a series he completed in the picturesque French village ...

Then he mould paint them at dusk, or half-hidden with rain, coated with snow ... much pictures of haystack or fields, as of the changing light and air which surround them. Monet was working ...

Artist Rosalind Davis looks more closely at Monet's works that feature winter themes. Winter was not always beautiful. Until Pieter Bruegel painted Hunters in the Snow, the long bitter months had ...