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 ...

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 ...

The gallery post carried a picture of the painting, apparently a 1908 work from Claude Monet’s Nymphéas series depicting the famous water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France, along with the ...

What Monet’s Water Lilies Taught Me About Beauty’s Proximity to Violence 7 minute read A woman looking at “Water Lillies” by Claude Monet in Saint Louis Art Museum.

Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet “Water Lilies” scene for $65.5 million on Monday, a solid start to a weeklong series of New York auctions being closely followed for fresh clues into the art ...

When Ai Weiwei opens his next show, visitors will encounter a familiar scene at London’s Design Museum: the famed water lilies of French painter Claude Monet. But there’s a twist.

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.

It’s unlikely to surpass the record set by Nymphéas en fleur, which sold for $84.7 million—the highest sum ever realized by Monet’s water lilies—at Christie’s New York in 2018 but not ...

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.