Claude Monet / Water Lilies / c. 1919-1926

Claude Monet
Water Lilies
c. 1919-1926
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Creator Name: Monet, Claude
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 1840 - 1926
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Claude Monet
Title: Water Lilies
Title Type: Primary
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1919
Creation End Date: 1926
Creation Date: c. 1919-1926
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: Unframed: 200.6cm x 425.3cm
AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number: 1960.81
Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html
Context: Monet spent the last thirty years of his life painting the lily pond at his home in Giverny, a small town on the river Seine, just north of Paris. While his initial exploration of the water lily theme (1902-8) produced smaller works more descriptive of a garden setting, the later paintings focus on the water's shimmering surface, indicating the surrounding trees and lush bank only through reflections. Here reflection and reality merge in strokes of blue, violet, and green. Fronds of water plants sway underwater and passing clouds are reflected above.By 1915 Monet had conceived a plan, called his Grande Décoration, for arranging a series of monumental water lily paintings in an oval room, thus creating a continuous panorama that would surround and enclose the viewer in an environment of pure color. That installation is located in two oval rooms in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris. Cleveland's painting is the left panel of a three-part variation on this water lily theme. Its companions are now in the St. Louis Art Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri.
AMICA ID: CMA_.1960.81
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art

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