Haystack Near Giverny is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Monet, from 1884. It is held in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. It is a precursor to his 1890s Haystacks series.

Haystack Near Giverny (1884) by Claude Monet

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.[1] His collection was seized by the state after the October Revolution - the painting was assigned to the State Museum of Modern Western Art until its closure in 1948, then moved to its present location.[2]

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  1. ^ (in Russian) Братья Морозовы. Великие русские коллекционеры: каталог выставки / Государственный Эрмитаж; Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина. — СПб.: Изд-во Гос. Эрмитажа, 2019. — 368 с. — ISBN 978-5-93572-861-8, page 62
  2. ^ (in Russian) 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