The Haystacks is a series of Impressionist paintings created by French painter Claude Monet. Monet made several paintings of haystacks in Giverny. He painted them from various viewpoints and under different weather conditions. The paintings date from 1890 and the spring and harvest seasons of 1891, and the series is known for its thematic use of repetition to show differences in the perception of light at different times of the day and during different seasons and weather. The series is considered one of Monet's most outstanding works, and six of the twenty-five haystack pieces are currently housed at the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston owns two and the Louvre in Paris owns one. Other museums that own a painting from this series include the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington Connecticut (which also holds a painting from an earlier series of five from the 1888-1889 harvest), National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, Minneapolis Institute of Arts in Minneapolis, Kunsthaus Zürich in Zurich and the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. Also in several private collections are paintings with haystacks. Has raised record amount at a New York safe in 2019, never before has so much money been paid for a work by Monet
