Claude Monet’s ‘Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule’ radically transforms a band of poplar trees at dusk into a bold concentration of colour and light that almost veers into abstraction. A celebration of the French landscape through one of its most iconic symbols, the poplar tree, this painting is one of the artist’s most transcendent in his acclaimed series documenting the subject. Discover how this resplendent canvas would instigate many of the significant developments of 20th-century art