Water Lilies (triptych)

Between 1914 and 1926 Claude Monet painted eight vast 'Water Lilies' canvases specifically sized for two oval rooms designed by Monet himself. Installed in 1927 at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris as his gift to the French state — a memorial to the end of the First World War — the panels fuse water, sky, and willow reflections into a near-abstract colour environment, and form one of the most ambitious single-artist installations in any museum.

Exhibition Venue

Musée de l'Orangerie

Paris, France