Water Lily Pond Painting

The water lily pond is work by artist claude monet from france is antique oil painting for sale.

Water lily pond painting. Water lily pond 1900 in monet paintings and drawings at the art institute of chicago ed. Water lilies or nymphéas french. The series paintings february 7 april 29 1990 no. Green harmony claude monet was the driving force behind the radical group of modern artists who became known as the impressionists.

Water lily pond was among the 18 similar versions of the motif that he made in 1899 1900. He enlarged the existing pond filling it with exotic new hybrid water lilies and built a humpback bridge at one end inspired by examples seen in japanese prints. Is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by french impressionist claude monet 1840 1926. Their common theme was the mingling of the lilies with reflections of other vegetation on the pool s surface.

The series paintings september 7. Monet in the 90s. The water garden became the main obsession of monet s later career and the subject of some 250 paintings. By the time of monet s death in 1926 the art world both in paris and in america was a very different place from the one he had largely struggled against during much of his life monet and his circle were the first to truly challenge the conventions of parisian art in the modern age and by doing so and progressing their works towards.

Art institute of chicago. The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in giverny and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life many of the works were painted while monet suffered from cataracts. 90 as the water lily pond japanese bridge. Analysis of the water lily pond.

Influenced by eugene boudin 1824 98 and johan barthold jongkind 1819 1891 monet himself came to specialize in plein air painting in order to capture the momentary effects. 9 water lilies opened the path to abstract painting. The series paintings may 19 august 24 1990 no. Monet in the 90s.

Monet in the 90s. Museum of fine arts boston.