But for decades before then, the oil painting — one of nearly 250 ... But even amid Monet’s hundreds of water lily paintings, ...

With its jewel-toned palette and expressive brushwork, “Reflections” deepens the narrative of Monet’s artistic career.

The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy contentment, as if the world is in ...

The artist used a larger-than-usual canvas (roughly 5 feet by 6 feet), freer brushwork, and an abstracted approach to prepare for a Grand Decoration of water lily paintings, which would later be ...

In Water Lilies #1, Ai probes notions of reality and artifice. Although Monet’s word-famous painting represents the epitome of natural beauty, the pond and gardens he depicts were in fact a man-made ...