The Lily Pond Crowd

Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art in New York study Claude Monet’s triptych painting of the water lilies.  In 1914, Monet began the series he called his grandes décorations of large panels depicting the water, flora and sky seen from his garden in Giverny.  The series was intended to create a visual refuge for the public from the trauma of the Great War.  Monet continued making adjustments on the panels up until his death in 1926, at which point twenty-two panels were installed at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris: a gift from the artist to the nation of France. The remaining nineteen canvases stayed in his studio until the late 1940s, when collectors and curators began to take an interest in them.

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Oil on Canvas

18 x 72 Inches

2024

Available for purchase.