Monet | Blue Water Lilies
Monet | Blue Water Lilies
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About Blue Water Lilies by Claude Monet
Monet painted Blue Water Lilies between about 1916 and 1919, in the water garden he had built at Giverny some thirty years earlier. By then the garden had become his only subject. He had diverted a branch of the river Epte to feed the pond, planted it with lilies, and spent the last decades of his life painting little else.
There is no horizon in this canvas and no bank — only the surface of the water, the pads floating on it, and the sky and willows reflected back through it. Monet dissolves the distinction between what sits on the water and what is mirrored in it. The eye has nothing to anchor to, which is precisely the effect he wanted.
He was working with failing eyesight by this stage — cataracts, diagnosed in 1912 and not operated on until 1923 — and the brushwork of the late canvases is looser and more thickly loaded than anything earlier. The colour does the drawing.
Blue Water Lilies at a glance
- Artist: Claude Monet (1840–1926)
- Painted: c. 1916–1919, Giverny
- Movement: Impressionism
- Original: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
- Medium: Oil on canvas
Common questions about Monet's Water Lilies
Where can you see Monet's Water Lilies?
Blue Water Lilies hangs in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. The most famous of the series are the eight enormous Grandes Décorations panels installed in two oval rooms at the Musée de l'Orangerie, also in Paris, which Monet designed specifically for that space and donated to France. Others are held by MoMA in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and major collections worldwide.
How many Water Lilies did Monet paint?
Around 250. He began the series in the late 1890s and continued until his death in 1926 — close to thirty years spent on a single subject, the pond in his own garden.
When was Blue Water Lilies painted?
Between roughly 1916 and 1919, during the late phase of the series, when Monet's canvases had grown larger and his handling looser.
How much is a Monet Water Lilies worth?
Blue Water Lilies is in the French national collection and is not for sale. Individual canvases from the series that have come to auction have reached around US$85 million — Nymphéas en fleur sold for US$84.7 million in 2018.
How did Monet paint the water lilies?
Outdoors, from a small boat and from the bank, working several canvases at once and moving between them as the light changed. He built the surface from short, separate strokes of unmixed colour laid over one another, so the blending happens in the viewer's eye rather than on the palette.
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This is not a print. Every painting we sell is reproduced in oils on canvas, by hand, by professional artists — no giclée, no computer-generated technique.
It matters here because of how the picture is made. The water in Blue Water Lilies is not a colour — it is dozens of separate strokes of blue, violet, green and rose sitting in layers on top of each other, which your eye assembles into depth. A print flattens all of that into a single photographic surface. A hand-painted version rebuilds the layers, and the water regains the depth Monet was after.
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