Water Lilies
1916 Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
This painting is one of Claude Monet's iconic "Water Lilies" series, depicting the water garden at his home in Giverny, France. The composition focuses solely on the surface of the water, reflecting the sky and surrounding foliage amidst the floating lily pads.
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Claude Monet was so captivated by his water garden at Giverny that he created around 250 oil paintings of the water lilies there, a series that became his primary focus in the last three decades of his life. Towards the end of his life, he suffered from cataracts, which increasingly affected his perception of color and light, adding a unique dimension to his later works in this monumental series.
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Water Lilies
Claude Monet, 1916
