Water Lilies
1920 Saint Louis Art Museum
About this artwork
This painting is part of Claude Monet's iconic "Water Lilies" series, a major focus of his later career. It depicts the surface of the water in his lily pond at Giverny, capturing the reflections and varying light conditions.
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Claude Monet's "Water Lilies" series became an obsession for the artist in his later years, resulting in over 250 oil paintings depicting his flower garden at Giverny. These works often blurred the line between water and sky, with the pond's surface acting as a mirror for the changing light and colors, inviting viewers into an immersive, almost abstract experience of nature. Monet continued this series even as his eyesight deteriorated due to cataracts, a challenge that some art historians believe influenced the increasingly abstract quality of his later works.
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Water Lilies
Claude Monet, 1920
