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Later in Life, Claude Monet Obsessed Over Water Lilies. His Paintings of Them Were Some of His Greatest Masterpieces
But a paradigm had shifted, and Monet became a magnet for his forward-looking contemporaries. Now, in his garden at Giverny ...
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Possible sale of Monet’s Water Lilies on Chinese social media causes disbelief
The gallery post carried a picture of the painting, apparently a 1908 work from Claude Monet’s Nymphéas series depicting the famous water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France, along with the ...
A Claude Monet ‘Water Lilies’ Scene Sold for $65.5 Million
Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet “Water Lilies” scene for $65.5 million on Monday, a solid start to a weeklong series of New ...
Portland Art Museum’s ‘Waterlilies’ restoration gives the beloved Monet painting ‘back its voice’
The water lilies themselves had only existed for a few years, DeWitt said. Monet was obsessed with acquiring the latest ...
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Why Restore Waterlilies Now?
The lighting decision approximates both what Monet would have experienced in his garden and the light at Paris’ Musée de l’Orangerie, where eight other works from his Water Lilies—Nymphéas ...
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Late "Lilies" extends MFA's view of Monet
The Museum of Fine Arts has brought Claude Monet's "Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows" (c. 1916-1919) to Boston for the first time. Why it matters: This will be the most recent Monet on ...