While Water Lilies is getting work done, visitors can get their French art fix at the museum’s exhibit Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, which runs June 8-Sept. 15.

The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny in summer 1905, to visit the home of artist Claude Monet. The painter wore “a suit made of some tweedy material in a beige ...

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, though pieces from Monet’s water lily collection now sell for ...

The MFA’s newly reimagined Gallery 252, which is dedicated to Claude Monet’s work, has found its centerpiece in “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows” (1916-1919), a powerful work ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art reunited its Claude Monet water lily painting with adjoining canvases from the St. Louis Art Museum and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO., in the 2015 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Portland Art Museum is months away from revealing its newly restored “Waterlilies” painting by impressionist master Claude Monet, which will appear as bright and ...

SEE IT: Monet’s Floating Worlds at Giverny: Portland’s Waterlilies Resurfaces at Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Ave., 503-226-2811, portlandartmuseum.org. 10 am–5 pm Wednesday–Saturday ...

Monet retreated to his oasis in Giverny, a village 50 miles outside of Paris, and continued the Sisyphean task he’d been laboring under for much the preceding two decades: painting water lilies ...

Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond, 1905. In earlier works, Monet painted the footbridge in a crisp, distinct arc. Here, its faint, shadowy curves blend into greenery of the natural surroundings.

Portland Art Museum restores vibrant color of Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’ by: John Ross Ferrara Posted: Nov 26, 2024 / 03:52 PM PST Updated: Mar 12, 2025 / 07:33 AM PDT ...