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Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
- Artist
- Claude Monet (1840–1926)
- Date
- 1915–1926
- Dimensions
- 201.3 x 425.6 cm
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, United States
This huge canvas belongs to the great cycle of Water Lilies that Monet painted in his last years, showing the surface of his pond at Giverny with floating lily pads and flowers, reflections of sky and clouds, and no shore or horizon.
A closer look
There is no fixed viewpoint: the water fills the whole canvas, and the eye drifts between the floating leaves, the pink blossoms and the reflected sky, so that up and down, near and far become uncertain. The brushwork is loose and energetic, the colours deep blues, violets and greens. Monet, almost blind from cataracts, worked on these enormous panels in a specially built studio, intending them as an immersive environment. This panel was part of a triptych; its two companions are now in Kansas City and St Louis.
More by Claude Monet
In this gallery
Chrysanthemums
The Walk
The Water-Lily Pond
Tulip Fields with the Rijnsburg Windmill
Poppy Field at Argenteuil
The Rue Montorgueil, Paris, Celebration of 30 June 1878
Impression, Sunrise
Bazille and Camille (Study for “Luncheon on the Grass”)
Garden at Sainte-Adresse
Boulevard des Capucines
Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight)
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)
La Grenouillère
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies
Famous works elsewhere
- Women in the Garden 1866
- The Magpie 1868
- Woman in the Garden 1867
- Luncheon on the Grass 1866