But for decades before then, the oil painting — one of nearly 250 painted at Monet’s home in Giverny, France — sat idle on the dining room wall of Michel Monet, the artist’s sole living son.

Many visitors to the Portland Art Museum have oohed and aahed over Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. The 1914-15 oil painting is a cornerstone of the museum’s Impressionist collection and a ...

The painting resists easy answers, and that resistance is what makes it so compelling and what draws the eye back to the work again and again. Ultimately, “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping ...

The painting also brings the ukiyo-e style to mind, with its cropped composition and confident color choices. It’s clear why Monet referred to the Water Lilies series as landscapes of water.

Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet “Water Lilies” scene for $65.5 million on Monday, a solid start to a weeklong series of New York auctions being closely followed for fresh clues into the art ...

This preoccupation with light intensified with age. Monet’s early water lilies feature fairly conventional components of landscape painting, such as careful framing and horizon lines.

The downside is that the vacuum pump oil gets contaminated with water vapor, but that’s far easier and cheaper to replace that a couple hundred gallons of hydraulic oil.

Instead of oil brushstrokes, his water lilies are made with the “depersonalized language of industrial parts and colors,” McGuirk tells the Guardian.

The Water Lily Pond, an 1899 oil masterpiece by Claude Monet, will be on display in York from 10 May to 8 September Visitors to a North Yorkshire city are being given the chance to view one of ...

The transparent oil-continuous systems are familiar as 'soluble-oil' and similar concentrates: the essential conditions for their formation are (1) highsoap/water ratio, (2) the presence of an ...

After a six-month conservation process, “Waterlilies” made its public debut in an exhibit highlighting the relationship between Japanese and French art.