Water Lilies
1916–19 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions : 51 1/4 x 79 in. (130.2 x 200.7 cm)
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit Gift of Louise Reinhardt Smith, 1983
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. By the time he began this work in the late teens, Monet had achieved a completely new, fluid, and somewhat audacious style of painting in which the water-lily pond became the point of departure for an almost abstract art.
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About this artwork
Water Lilies (1916–19) by Claude Monet, oil on canvas, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
About Claude Monet
(November 1840 – 5 December 1926) Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.
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