The story of the young girl, around the same age as I was, visiting Claude Monet’s enchanting garden in Giverny captivated me ...

Beyond Monet brings together some of the artist’s most famous canvases – including Poppies, Impression: Sunrise and his exquisite Water Lilies series – with lesser-known works which all ...

Having cut a few to shreds, Monet, “extremely irritable and morose,” turned them to the wall and would “go away for change and rest.” Water Lilies, 1907. “These water landscapes have b ...

The Musée d’Orsay, which boasts the largest ... she moved to Giverny to care for the aging Monet, supporting him through his final series of water lilies. “Without her, Claude Monet would ...

Meanwhile Paris's Musée d'Orsay (widely regarded ... Her reassuring presence gave Monet the strength he required to begin the monumental compositions of water lilies that occupied his final ...

The lighting decision approximates both what Monet would have experienced in his garden and the light at Paris’ Musée de l’Orangerie, where eight other works from his Water Lilies—Nymphéas ...

Legend has it that, at the age of four, while on vacation in Paris, she discovered Claude Monet's Water Lilies at the Orangerie. She had an epiphany. She'll often tell anyone who will listen that ...

The water lilies themselves had only existed for a few years, DeWitt said. Monet was obsessed with acquiring the latest hybrids. When patrons enter the Portland Art Museum exhibit, they’ll first ...

Alternatively, if you book a spot on Country Living's tour of northern France including Giverny and the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris (home to Monet’s glorious two-metre-tall water-lilies paintings), ...

“‘True Love Waits’, like the Water Lilies, went through decades of versions and distillations,” she continued, “through time and loss and perseverance.” It continued: “In some ...

It was in 1914, at the age of 74, when he had just lost his son and could see no hope for the future, that Monet felt a renewed desire to « undertake something on a grand scale » based on « old ...