Blue Water Lilies
1916 Musée d'Orsay
About this artwork
This oil on canvas painting is part of Claude Monet's iconic Water Lilies series, depicting the artist's garden pond at Giverny. It captures the play of light and reflections on the water's surface, a recurring theme in his later works.
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Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" series, which includes "Blue Water Lilies," consists of approximately 250 oil paintings depicting his flower garden at Giverny. These works, created in the last thirty years of his life, were profoundly influenced by his failing eyesight, leading to increasingly abstract and large-scale compositions that explored light and color to an unprecedented degree. The series is considered a pinnacle of Impressionism and a precursor to abstract art.
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Blue Water Lilies
Claude Monet, 1916
