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Water Lilies ( French: Nymphéas [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet ...
Water Lilies. 1906. Claude Monet. French, 1840-1926. “One instant, one aspect of nature contains it all,” said Claude Monet, referring to his late masterpieces, the water landscapes that he produced at his home in Giverny between 1897 and his death in 1926. These works replaced the varied contemporary subjects he had painted from the 1870s ...
Artwork Details. Title: Water Lilies. Artist: Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny) Date: 1919. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 39 3/4 x 78 3/4 in. (101 x 200 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 1998, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002.
Claude Monet Water Lilies 1914-26. On view. MoMA, Floor 5, 515 The David Geffen Wing. In the final decades of his life, Monet embarked on a series of monumental compositions depicting the lush lily ponds in his gardens in Giverny, in northwestern France. At the end of the nineteenth century, the painter had envisioned a circular installation of ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Water Lilies, series of some 250 oil paintings that were created by French Impressionist artist Claude Monet from the late 1890s to his death in 1926 and were focused on the water lily pond in his garden. As Vincent van Gogh is associated in the public consciousness with sunflowers, Monet’s name is inextricably linked with water lilies.
Water Lilies. Claude Monet French. 1916–19. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 819. As part of his extensive gardening plans at Giverny, Monet had a pond dug and planted with lilies in 1893. From 1899 on, he repeatedly turned to the subject, attempting to capture every observation, impression, and reflection of the flowers and water.
In 1893, Monet, a passionate horticulturist, purchased land with a pond near his property in Giverny, intending to build something "for the pleasure of the eye and also for motifs to paint." The result was his water-lily garden. In 1899, he began a series of eighteen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond, completing twelve paintings ...
Plants, water, and sky seem to merge in Claude Monet’s evocative painting of his lily pond at Giverny. The disorienting reflections, bold brushstrokes, and lack of horizon line or spatial depth make Water Lilies appear almost abstract. Painted about 1922, it belongs to a grand project that Monet had conceived as far back as 1897:
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Monet worked on this triptych in his studio located in Giverny, France. The total width of the three panels is 12.77 meters. That’s 41 feet 11 inches. The central panel of this triptych, titled Water Lilies, came to the Saint Louis Art Museum in 1956. The right panel was acquired by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City in 1957.
Monet grew white water lilies in the water garden he had installed in his property at Giverny in 1893. From the 1910s until he died in 1926, the garden and its pond in particular, became the artist's sole source of inspiration. He said: "I have come back to things that are impossible to do: water with weeds waving in the depths.
Monet’s water lilies were a hybrid breed in pink and yellow as well as white. The undersides of the water lilies were dark red, the same colour in which Monet signed the painting. Red is on the other side of the colour wheel to the green that dominates the painting; this contrast was in keeping with Monet's interest in complementary colours.
