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 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.

Monet retreated to his oasis in Giverny, a village 50 miles outside of Paris, and continued the Sisyphean task he’d been laboring under for much the preceding two decades: painting water lilies ...

The MFA’s newly reimagined Gallery 252, which is dedicated to Claude Monet’s work, has found its centerpiece in “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows” (1916-1919), a powerful work ...

“In Water Lilies #1, I integrate Monet’s Impressionist painting, reminiscent of Zenism in the east, and concrete experiences of my father and me into a digitized and pixelated language ...

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 ...

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, though pieces from Monet’s water lily collection now sell for ...