Water Lilies
by Marcia Lee Jones
Title
Water Lilies
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
Medium
Photograph - Photography Digital
Description
Water Lilies is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840�1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.
The paintings are on display at museums all over the world, including the Mus�e Marmottan Monet and the mus�e d'Orsay in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Museum of Wales, the Mus�e des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Portland Art Museum. During the 1920s, the state of France built a pair of oval rooms at the Mus�e de l'Orangerie as a permanent home for eight water lily murals by Monet. The exhibit opened to the public on 16 May 1927, a few months after Monet's death. Sixty water lily paintings from around the world were assembled for a special exhibition at the Mus�e de l'Orangerie in 1999.
On 19 June 2007, one of Monet's water lily paintings sold for �18.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in London. On 24 June 2008 another of Monet's water lily paintings, Le bassin aux nymph�as, sold for almost �41 million at Christie's in London, almost double the estimate of �18 to �24 million.
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June 3rd, 2012
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Comments (7)
Lori Pittenger
This is stunning Marcia! Love the colors and special artistic eye of this capture! L/F
Debra Thompson
Neat capture! I have a group called Hidden Hearts if you would like to add your photo!
Bob and Nancy Kendrick
Beautiful image! V/f
Marcia Lee Jones replied:
Thanks for all your votes, Bob & Nancy. Did you see the heart in the water?