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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.
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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.
Claude Monet lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of French Impressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
The Painting: While living with his family at Vétheuil, a small suburb on the Seine northwest of Paris, Claude Monet took up floral painting both outdoors in the garden and indoors with cut flowers. From 1878 until 1883, he completed twenty floral still lifes, including this painting of sunflowers in a vase signed and dated by the artist in 1881.
The Collection. European Paintings. Water Lilies. Claude Monet French. 1919. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 822. One of Monet’s critics described this canvas of 1919 as waterlilies "in full flower assert [ing] themselves … their golden discs encased in purple, against the cloudy waters."
6 kwi 2022 · View Full-Size Image. An 1864 oil on canvas still life, Spring Flowers, by Claude Monet (1840-1926), the French impressionist painter. Painted while Monet was studying at Gleyre's Academy in Paris, the work shows his mastery of traditional painting techniques. (Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA)
