Cleveland Museum of Art
Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Claude MonetLinkedCulture matchlcp-86a26a40cf9a
- Date
- c. 1915–26
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France, late 19th century-early 20th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 136510
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
A skilled horticulturalist as well as an artist, Claude Monet spent the last 30 years of his life painting the private garden he designed and helped cultivate at his home in Giverny in northern France. The resultant canvases are notable for their varied motifs, formats, and sizes. Monumental in scale, this rendering of his water lily pond focuses on the momentary effects of sunlight as it both penetrates and reflects off its shimmering surface. By zeroing in on the water and omitting its horizon and surrounding banks, Monet infers a limitless expanse—a perception amplified by the painting’s vast horizontal format that fills the viewer’s field of vision. Water lilies were a recurring theme in Monet's work; he painted around 250 water lily compositions.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund and an anonymous gift
- Provenance
- Estate of the artist. | Michel Monet, Giverny, through 1950 (according to Connaissance des arts 1966). | Katia Granoff, Paris. Bought from her by Knoedler & Co. (stock number a 6420), July 1956. | 1960-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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