Wednesday 27 November 2013

Claude Monet - part 23 1897 - 1922 Water Lilies


Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. 


For full biographical notes on Monet see part 1. For earlier works by Monet see parts 1 - 22 also.

This is part 23 of a 27-part series on the works of Claude Monet:


Water Lilies 1897 - 1922
Part 1







Water Lilies (or Nymphéas) is a series of approximately 250 works by Monet. The paintings depict the flower garden and water lily pond at Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic output during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered cataracts on his eyes. During the 1920s the French State built a pair of oval rooms at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris, as a permanent home to eight water lily murals. Sixty water lily paintings were assembled from around the world for a special exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie in 1999.

In 2007 one of Monet’s water lily paintings sold for £18.5 million at a Sotheby’s auction in London. In 2008 another water lily painting sold for almost £41 million at Christie’s in London, almost double the pre-auction estimate of £18 - £24 million.


Claude Monet 1897-8 Pink Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 81 x 100 cm 
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

Claude Monet 1897-99 
Water Lilies 
oil on canvas Private Collection

Claude Monet 1897-99 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1897-99 Water Lilies, Evening Effect 
oil on canvas 
Neue Pinakothek, Munich

Claude Monet 1898 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 66 x 104.1 cm 
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

Claude Monet 1903 Water Lilies 
89 x 100 cm 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

Claude Monet 1903 Water Lilies ( The Clouds ) 
oil on canvas 74.6 x 105.3 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1903 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 81.3 x 101.6 cm 
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio

Claude Monet 1903 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas
Claude Monet 1903 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

Claude Monet 1904 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 89 x 92 cm 
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

Claude Monet 1904 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 90 x 92 cm 
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France

Claude Monet 1904 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France

Claude Monet 1904 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1905 Water Lilies  
oil on canvas 81.9 x 101 cm 
The National Museum of Wales - Amgueddfa Cymru, UK

Claude Monet 1905 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 89.5 x 100.3 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet 1905 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 90 x 100 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1905 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1905 
Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1906-07 
Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1906 
Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1906 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 81.6 x 92.7 cm 
The National Museum of Wales - Amgueddfa Cymru, UK

Claude Monet 1906 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 87.6 x 92.7 cm 
Art Institute Chicago, IL

Claude Monet 1906 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm 
Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 100.5 x 73.4 cm 
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Texas

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 81 x 92 cm 
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 96.8 x 98.4 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Claude Monet 1907 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1907c Water Lilies, Setting Sun 
oil on canvas 73 x 92.7 cm 
The National Gallery, London

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
81 x 81 cm 
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 90 x 94 cm 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 92 x 90 cm 
Worchester Art Museum, MA

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 100 x 100 cm 
Private Collection 

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

Claude Monet 1908 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1908 Waterlilies  
oil on canvas 100.7 x 81.3 cm 
Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, UK 

Claude Monet 1914 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1914 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas

Claude Monet 1914-17 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1914-17 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1914-17 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1914-17 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1914-17 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 

Claude Monet 1914-17 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 181 x 201.6 cm 
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Claude Monet 1914-17 Water Lilies 
oil on canvas 200 x 200 cm 
Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris

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