Claude Monet, 1840-1926, developed a passion for waterlilies.
He grew them at Giverny from the mid-1890s onwards and painted them more than two hundred times beginning in 1899.
Bridge over a Pond of Waterlilies, 1899, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
The Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool, Giverny, 1899, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Philadelphia Art Museum
Waterlilies, Japanese Footbridge, 1918-1926, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Philadelphia Museum of Art
A rare palette for this artist
The Japanese Footbridge, 1920-22, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. MOMA, New York
Among the last of a series of paintings begun 25 years prior of the bridge at Giverny with a combination of colours noted by the museum as rare in this artist’s work
The Waterlilies, 1905, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Private collection on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Water Lilies,and detail, oil on canvas, 1916-1919
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
This triptych was bought by MOMA, NY from the artist’s son, Michel Monet, in 1959
following widespread outpouring of grief – the Museum’s word – at the destruction by fire in April 1958 of two of the artist’s waterlily paintings owned by the museum.
Triptych of waterlilies, Water Lilies, 1914-1926, oil on canvas,
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. MOMA, NY. Photo from the net.
Detail of the triptych, Water Lilies, 1914-26
As is known, the great luxury of the last years of his life were the flowers in his garden at Giverny.
Along the banks of the pond at Giverny, in which he planted waterlilies, Monet also planted, among other plants, agapanthus, a flower native to southern Africa whose very name derives from the Greek words for ‘love’ and ‘flower’.
Agapanthus and detail, 1914-1926, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. MOMA, New York
so peaceful!