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Waterlilies
Artist: MONET, Claude (1840 - 1926)
When this work and forty-seven other Monet paintings of waterlilies (nymphéas) were first exhibited in 1909 an enthusiastic critic proclaimed: 'Here, more than ever before, painting approaches music and poetry. There is in these paintings an inner beauty, refined and pervasive; the beauty of a play and of a concert, a beauty that is both plastic and ideal.' This is the most delicately-coloured and abstract-looking of the three Monet Nymphéas purchased by Gwendoline Davies at Paris in 1913.
Image: © Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 2480
Creation/Production
MONET, Claude
Role: Creation
Date: 1908
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/4/1952
Measurements
Height: 100.7cm
Width: 81.3cm
h(cm) frame:119
w(cm) frame:98.5
d(cm) frame:6.5
Techniques
oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
oil
canvas
Location
In store
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