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In 1883, Claude Monet, his second wife, Alice Horsched, and their eight children moved to Giverny, a town about an hour’s drive from Paris, where he spent the rest of his life . “These landscapes of water and reflections have become an obsession. They are beyond the capabilities of an old man, but I still want to succeed in presenting what I perceive…” Monet said of his garden in Giverny, where he There are many versions of the “Water Lily Pond” painted there. Monet was an inspired gardener and perfectionist who designed his garden as if he were changing clothes for a model or arranging a still life – making it look exactly the way he wanted to paint it. He built an arched bridge based on Japanese designs over part of the pond. He also obtained permission to control inflows, creating the right conditions for growing new hybrid water lilies that are hardy enough for the French climate. He carefully arranged the arrangement of colors and plants (including irises and weeping willows) around the edge of the pond for the best reflections. He prunes dead water lilies and even leaves. He even paid for an asphalt road through his home because he didn’t like the dust that fell on his plants.
Monet would work on a painting for half an hour, and as the light changed, he would swap the canvas he was painting on for another, frantically trying to find the one that best matched what he was seeing right now. “It was a constant torture for me!” he complained. From the late 1890s to 1910, Monet produced a series of water lily paintings in succession. About three hundred of his paintings are his flower and water gardens. He was always self-critical, and when he feared he was getting too tired, he would slash his paintings with a knife. Only four 1904 paintings of water lilies have survived his rampage – this one is one of them.
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34 ⅝ × 36 in
Impressionism
Denver Art Museum
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