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Later in Life, Claude Monet Obsessed Over Water Lilies. His Paintings of Them Were Some of His Greatest Masterpieces
The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s ...
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Possible sale of Monet’s Water Lilies on Chinese social media causes disbelief
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 ...
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Ai Weiwei's largest-ever Lego artwork revealed at London’s Design Museum
In Water Lilies #1, Ai probes notions of reality and artifice. Although Monet’s word-famous painting represents the epitome of natural beauty, the pond and gardens he depicts were in fact a man-made ...