Claude Monet (1840-1926, French) 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, 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.
Agapanthus and detail, 1914-1926, oil on canvas.
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French. MOMA, New York
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