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Waterlilies
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.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 2480
Creation/Production
MONET, Claude
Acquisition
Bequest, 10/4/1952
Measurements
Height
(cm): 100.7
Width
(cm): 81.3
Height
(in): 39
Width
(in): 32
h(cm) frame:119
h(cm)
w(cm) frame:98.5
w(cm)
d(cm) frame:6.5
d(cm)
Techniques
Oil on canvas
Techniques (fine art)
Art dept - fine
Fine Art - painting
Material
Oil
Canvas
Location
on loan out
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