Monet Lily Pond Paintings
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Monet lily pond paintings. The result was his water lily garden. The water lily pond an in painting tour from the national gallery london. These monumental paintings were intended to form an entire decorative scheme and he donated 22 of them to the french state after the firs. Nature recomposed by the artist began to resemble his art.
All lily pond paintings ship within 48 hours and include a 30 day money back guarantee. In 1916 monet had a new studio built at his home in giverny in order to work on huge canvases of his water lily pond each of them more than two metres high. Claude monet reflections of clouds on the water lily pond c. Nɛ fe a is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926.
The national gallery london. It wasn t actually a painting that monet deemed his greatest work of art but the beautiful gardens he created at his home in giverny. The vertical format of the picture unusual in this series gives prominence to the water lilies and their reflections on the pond. 5 when monet come back to his water lily paintings in 1914 following the.
The water lily pond is a painting produced by claude monet in 1899. All of his paintings which comprise of the grandes decorations series are painted in monet s en plein air style and the purpose of such a style is to paint the effects of natural light on objects. My finest masterpiece he later said is my garden water lilies agapanthus 1914 1917 by claude monet. The painting style which monet first fell in love with in his formative years is on full display in his lily pond.
From 1897 to 1926 monet painted many series of painting in his last 30 years among which include seine at giverny and water lily pond. This is one of the largest series of paintings which the french painter painted with 18 different canvases. He seeded the pond and added enclosures with white chickens ducks and pheasants. In 1899 he began a series of eighteen views of the wooden footbridge over the pond completing twelve paintings including the present one that summer.
1920 200 1276 cm 78 74 502 36 in oil on canvas museum of modern art new york city water lilies or nymphéas french.