8, 1939, cat. cat. cat. Charlottenlund, Ordrupgaard, Monet: Beyond Impressionism, August 24-December 4, 2016, fig. Monet and his contemporaries broke down barriers and persevered in their artistic quest against great hardship in order to achieve a freedom of expression

He also changed his palette ond used brilliant spots of color to suggest the flowers. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), pp. 5) When Monet come back to his water lily paintings in 1914 following the death of his beloved wife Alice in 1911. he made some radical changes in his approach, namely in the scale of the canvases. This vision materialized in the form of some forty large-scale panels, Water Lilies among them, that Monet produced and continuously reworked from 1914 until his death in 1926. [1] Sixty water lily paintings from around the world were assembled for a special exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in 1999.

1) Water Lilies is not a name of a single painting, but a name of a series of works. cat. 16 x 16 in other sizes. Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas, 1919, private collection, Water Lilies, 1919, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow, 1916–19, private collection, Nymphéas (Waterlilies), 1914–17, National Gallery of Australia, Closeup of Water lily pond, one of 18 views of the pond, 1899, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, This article is about the series of paintings.

Christian Geelhaar, et al., Claude Monet: Nymphéas, Impression, Vision, exh. Wichita Art Museum, Three Centuries of French Painting, exh cat. rais.

44–45, fig. 198–99, fig. Bloomington, Ill., Scottish Rite Temple, Central Illinois Art Exposition, Mar. 7606, as Les nymphéas, paysage d’eau, série de 1906), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Feb. 10, 1914 [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904–24 (no. 103. Claude Monet & Paul Gauguin   |   Claude Monet & Van Gogh 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.Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts. Monet was fascinated with light and its changing effects on the natural environment. (Royal Academy of Arts, London/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Yale University Press, 1998), pp. This gave the artist added freedom to explore motifs of his choice 14–15, ill. 13. 14, 1956, no cat. "This is beyond the strength of an old man, and yet I want to express what I feel. (Royal Academy of Arts, London/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Yale University Press, 1998), pp.

The dense composition hovers at the threshold of abstraction, its lack of horizon creating an effect of total immersion.

4, Peintures, 1899–1926 (Bibliothèque des Arts, 1985), pp. 19, 1986, cat.

That project has concluded, and works are now being identified by MoMA staff. (Sotheby’s, Nov. 5, 2002), pp. 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. 63. 7, 13 n. 24, colorpl. The canvases were taken from his studio and the Orangerie was opened to the public in May 1927.