Water Lilies (Monet series)

This article is about the series of paintings. For other uses, see Water lily.

Claude Monet, The Water Lilies – The Clouds, 1920–1926, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Claude Monet, The Water Lilies – Setting Sun, 1920–1926, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
Claude Monet, Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. 1920, 200 × 1276 cm (78.74 × 502.36 in), oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Water Lilies (French: Nymphéas [nɛ̃.fe.a]) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The paintings depict his flower garden at his home in Giverny, and were the main focus of his artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts.[1][2]

Background

Monet's long-standing preference for producing and exhibiting a series of paintings related by subject and perspective began in 1889, with at least ten paintings done at the Valley of the Creuse, which were shown at the Galerie Georges Petit.[3] Among his other famous series are his Haystacks.

During the 1920s, the state of France built a pair of oval rooms at the Musée de l'Orangerie as a permanent home for eight water lily murals by Monet. The exhibit opened to the public on 16 May 1927, a few months after Monet's death.[1] Sixty water lily paintings from around the globe were assembled for a special exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in 1999.[4]

The paintings are on prominent display at museums all over the world, including the Musée Marmottan Monet,[5] the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Tate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York,[6] the Art Institute of Chicago,[7] the Saint Louis Art Museum,[8] the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri,[9] the Carnegie Museum of Art, Princeton University Art Museum, the National Museum of Wales, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, The Toledo Museum of Art,[10] the Cleveland Museum of Art,[11] the Portland Art Museum, and the Legion of Honor.[12] In 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston celebrated its 150th anniversary with some of Monet's Water Lilies paintings.[13]

The paintings at auction

Monet painted the bigger works of his Water Lily series in a large studio at his home in Giverny, France

On 19 June 2007, one of Monet's Water Lily paintings sold for £18.5 million at a Sotheby's auction in London.[14] On 24 June 2008 another of his Water Lily paintings, Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas, sold for almost £41 million at Christie's in London, almost double the estimate of £18 to £24 million.[15]

In May 2010, it was announced that the 1906 Nymphéas work would be auctioned in London in June 2010. The painting had an estimated sale price of between £30 and £40 million.[16] Giovanna Bertazzoni, Christie's auction house director and head of impressionist and modern art, said, "Claude Monet's water-lily paintings are amongst the most recognised and celebrated works of the 20th Century and were hugely influential to many of the following generations of artists."[16] The sale took place on 23 June 2010 at the auction house and the painting attracted bids of up to £29 million, but it ultimately failed to sell.[17]

On 6 May 2014, one of the Water Lilies, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas, was auctioned at Christie's, New York City for $27 million.[16][18]

In June 2014, one of the Water Lilies, Nymphéas, sold for US$54 million at a Sotheby's auction in London.[19] This piece was auctioned to an anonymous buyer, but the piece went on to be part of the exhibition "Painting the Modern Garden: From Monet to Matisse" at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, starting in 2015.[19] The co-chairman of Sotheby's modern and impressionist art department, Helena Newman, claims that the result is at the top of the original estimated selling price. This price was between 34 and 51 million USD.

While many of Monet's masterpieces have sold, there are still an estimated 250 oil paintings from this series.[20] The collection is widely popular, with many of these pieces residing in exhibits. The paintings have been catalogued by Daniel Wildenstein in his Monet: Catalogue Raisonné.

List of Water Lily paintings

Image Title Date Museum Size (cm) Catalog No
Water Lilies 1897–1898 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 65 x 100 W.1501
Water Lilies 1897–1898 Private collection 73 x 100 W.1502
Water Lilies 1897–1898 Private collection 100 x 100 W.1503
Water Lilies – Evening Effect 1897–1898 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 73 x 100 W.1504
Water Lilies 1897–1898 Private collection 75 x 100 W.1505
Water-Lilies 1897–1899 Kagoshima City Museum of Art 89 x 130 W.1506
Water Lilies 1897–1899 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome 81 x 100 W.1507
Water-Lilies 1897–1899 Private collection 130 x 152 W.1508
Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge 1899 Princeton University Art Museum 90 x 90 W.1509
The Water Lily Pond 1899 Private collection 93 x 90 W.1510
The Water Lily Pond 1899 Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa 89 x 92 W.1511
Japanese Bridge and Water Lily Pond 1899 Philadelphia Museum of Art 89 x 93 W.1512
White Water Lilies 1895 Pushkin Museum (Moscow) 89 x 92 W.1513
The Water-Lily Pond 1899 Private collection 89 x 92 W.1514
The Lily Pond, Green Harmony 1898 Musée d'Orsay, Paris 89 x 93 W.1515
The Lily Pond 1899 National Gallery, London 88 x 92 W.1516
Japanese Footbridge 1899 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 81 x 100 W.1517
Bridge over the Lily Pond 1899 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 93 x 74 W.1518
Water-Lily Pond 1899 Unknown Known from a photograph of the studio W.1519
Bridge over the Water-Lilies 1899 MM Khalil Museum, Cairo 116 x 89 W.1520
Water Lily Pond 1900 Art Institute of Chicago 89 × 100 W.1628
Water-Lily Pond, Symphony in Rose 1900 Musée d'Orsay, Paris 90 x 100 W.1629
The Water-Lily Pond 1900 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 90 x 92 W.1630
The Japanese Bridge or The Lily Pond 1900 Private collection 89 x 92 W.1631
Water-Lily Pond: Water Irises 1900 Private collection 89 x 100 W.1632
Water-lily Pond and Path by the Water 1900 Private collection 89 x 100 W.1633
Water-Lilies, Clouds 1903 Private collection 73 x 100 W.1656
Water-Lilies 1903 Dayton Art Institute 81 x 100 W.1657
Water-Lilies 1903 Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo 81 x 100 W.1658
Water-Lily Pond 1903 Known only from photographs W.1659
Water-Lilies 1903 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 73 x 92 W.1660
Water-Lilies 1903 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 89 x 100 W.1661
Water-Lilies 1904 Private collection 81 x 100 W.1662
Water-Lily Pond 1904 Known only from photograph W.1663
Lily Pond 1904 Museum of modern art André Malraux - MuMa, Le Havre 90 x 96 W.1664
Water-Lilies 1904 Private collection 90 x 92 W.1665
Lily Pond 1904 Denver Art Museum 88 x 91 W.1666
Water-Lilies 1904 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen 90 x 92 W.1667
The Bridge over the Water-Lily Pond 1905 Private collection 90 x 100 W.1668
Lily Pond, the Bridge 1905 Private collection 95 x 100 W.1669
The Water-Lily Pond and Bridge 1905 Private collection 86 X 100 W.1670
Water-Lilies 1905 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 89 x 100 W.1671
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 89 x 99 W.1672
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 90 X 100 W.1673
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 90 x 100 W.1674
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 89 x 92 W.1675
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 89 x 100 W.1676
Water-Lilies 1905 Unknown Known only from a photograph W.1677
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 73 x 105 W.1678
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 81 x 100.5 W.1679
Water-Lilies 1905 National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff 82 x 101 W.1680
Water-Lilies 1905 Private collection 73 x 105 W.1681
Water-Lilies 1906–07 Private collection 73 x 100 W.1682
Water Lilies 1906 Art Institute of Chicago 89.9 × 94.1 W.1683
Water-Lilies 1906–07 Private collection 90 x 100 W.1684
Water-Lilies 1906–07 Private collection 81 x 92 W.1685
Water-Lilies 1906–07 Private collection 90 x 93 W.1686
Water-Lilies 1906–07 Private collection 91 x 100 W.1687
Water-Lilies 1906–07 National Museums & Galleries of Wales, Cardiff 81 x 92 W.1688
Water-Lilies 1906–07 Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki 73 x 92 W.1689
Water-Lilies 1908 Kunstmuseum, Saint Gallen 90 x 93 W.1690
Water-Lilies 1907 Museum of Art, Yamagata 81 x 92 W.1691
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 89 x 130 W.1694
Water-Lilies 1907 Musée M Khalil, Cairo 81 x 100 W.1695
Water-Lilies 1907 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford 81 x 92 W.1696
Water-Lilies 1907 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 90 x 93 W.1697
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 93 x 89 W.1698
Water-Lilies 1907 Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa 93 x 99 W.1699
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 100 x 90 W.1700
Water-Lilies 1907 Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) Diam. 81 W.1701
Water-Lilies 1907 Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) Diam. 81 W.1702
Water-Lilies 1907 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 91 x 81 W.1703
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 92 x 73 W.1704
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 92 x 73 W.1705
Water-Lilies 1907 Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura 92 x 73 W.1706
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 100 x 82 W.1707
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection[21] 100 x 73 W.1708
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 106 x 73 W.1709
Water-Lilies 1907 Israel Museum, Jerusalem 107 x 73 W.1710
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 93 x 82 W.1711
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 92 x 73 W.1712
Water-Lilies 1907 Kuboso Memorial Museum of Art, Osaka 82 x 89 W.1713
Water-Lilies 1907 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 100 x 73 W.1714
Water-Lilies 1907 Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo 100 x 73 W.1715
Water-Lilies 1907 Gothenburg Museum of Art 105 x 73 W.1716
Water-Lilies 1907 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 105 x 73 W.1717
Water-Lilies, Reflections on the Water 1907 Musée A André, Bagnols-sur-Cèze 73 x 92 W.1718
Water-Lilies, Setting Sun 1907 National Gallery, London 73 x 93 W.1719
Water-Lily Pond,Sketch 1907 Private collection 73 x 107 W.1720
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 90 x 92 W.1721
Water-Lilies 1907 Private collection 100 x 100 W.1722
Water-Lilies 1907 Private Collection 100 x 100 W.1723
Water Lilies 1908 Museum of Vernon Diam. 81 W.1724
Water-Lilies 1908 Private collection 92 x 81 W.1725
Water-Lilies 1908 Private collection 100 x 81 W.1726
Water-Lilies 1908 Private collection 92 x 89 W.1727
Water-Lilies 1908 Private collection 92 x 89 W.1728
Water-Lilies 1908 Dallas Museum of Art Diam. 80 W.1729
Water-Lilies 1908 Private collection 100 x 81 W.1730
Water-Lilies 1908 Tokyo Fuji Art Museum 100 x 90 W.1731
Water-Lilies 1908 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 100 x 81 W.1732
Water-Lilies 1908 Worcester Art Museum 73 x 93 W.1733
Water-Lilies 1908 Private collection 86 x 90 W.1734
Water-Lilies 1908 Private collection 100 x 81 W.1735
The Water-Lily Pond, Rose Arches 1914–1917 Private collection 73 x 100 W.1781
Water-Lilies with Reflections of Green Grasses 1914–1917 Private collection 130 x 200 W.1782
Water-Lilies 1914–1917 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 130 x 200 W.1783
Water-Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 130 x 200 W.1784
Water-Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 150 x 200 W.1785
Water-Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 130 x 150 W.1786
Water-Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 135 x 145 W.1787
Water-Lilies 1914–1917 Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco 180 x 146 W.1788
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 175 x 135 W.1789
Nymphéas en fleur 1914–1917 Private collection 160 x 180 W.1790
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 150 x 200 W.1791
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 150 x 200 W. 1792
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Asahi beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto 152 x 200 W.1793
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Museum of Modern Art, Gunma 130 x 90 W.1794
Water Lilies 1915 Portland Art Museum, Oregon 160 x 180 W.1795
Water-Lilies 1915 Neue Pinakothek, Munich 151 x 200 W.1796
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 130 x 153 W.1797
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 132 x 84 W.1798
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 170 x 122 W.1799
Water Lilies 1916 National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo 200 x 200 W.1800
White and Yellow Water Lilies 1914–1917 Kunstverein, Winterthur 200 x 200 W.1801
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Asahi beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art, Kyoto 200 x 200 W.1802
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 200 x 200 W.1803
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Toledo Museum of Art 200 x 215 W.1804
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 160 x 180 W.1805
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 150 x 165 W.1806
Water Lilies 1914–1917 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 180 x 200 W.1807
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 180 x 200 W.1808
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Private collection 135 x 145 W.1809
Water Lilies 1914–1919 Private collection 120 x 200 W.1810
Water Lilies 1914–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 200 x 200 W.1811
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima 135 x 145 W.1812
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Museum of Modern Art, New York 180 x 200 W.1813
(lost in fire)
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Beyeler Foundation, Basel 150 x 200 W.1814
Water Lilies 1914–1917 Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne 180 x 200 W.1815
Water Lilies 1914–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 180 x 200 W.1816
Water-Lilies, Cluster of Grass 1914–1917 Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima 200 x 213 W.1817
Water-Lilies 1916–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 150 x 197 W.1852
Blue Water-Lilies 1916–1919 Musée d'Orsay, Paris 200 x 200 W.1853
Water-Lilies 1916–1919 Beyeler Foundation, Basel 200 x 180 W.1854
Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow 1916–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 130 x 88 W.1855
Water-Lilies 1916–1919 Private collection 130 x 200 W.1856
Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow 1916–1919 Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima 100 x 200 W.1857
Water-Lilies, Reflections of a Weeping Willow 1916–1919 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 130 x 200 W.1858
Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow 1916–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 200 x 200 W.1859
Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow 1916–1919 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 130 x 200 W.1860
Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow 1916–1919 Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu 130 x 197 W.1861
Water-Lilies, Reflection of a Weeping Willow 1916–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 200 x 200 W.1862
Water-Lilies 1916–1919 McNay Art Museum, San Antonio 130 x 200 W.1863
Water-Lilies 1916–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 130 x 152 W.1864
Water-Lilies 1916–1919 Private collection 89 x 130 W. 1865
Vue du bassin aux nymphéas avec saule 1916–1919 Private Collection 140 x 150 W.1866
Jardin d'eau à Giverny 1920 Museum of Grenoble 117 x 83 W.1878
The Water-Lily Pond 1918–1919 Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva 120 x 89 W.1879
The Water-Lily Pond 1918–1919 Private collection 130 x 88 W.1880
The Water-Lily Pond 1918-1919 Private collection 129 x 89 W.1881
The Water-Lily Pond 1918–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 73 x 105 W.1882
The Water-Lily Pond 1918–1919 Museum Folkwang, Essen 130 x 200 W.1883
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 MOA Museum of Art, Atami 130 x 200 W.1884
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Private collection 130 x 200 W.1885
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Musée d'Arts de Nantes 100 x 200 W.1886
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Private collection 100 x 200 W.1887
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 130 x 120 W.1888/1
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Current whereabouts unknown 130 x 80 W.1888/2
Water Lily Pond 1917–1926 Art Institute of Chicago 130.2 × 201.9 W.1889
The Water Lily Pond 1917–1919 Private collection 100 x 200 W.1890
The Water-Lily Pond (left panel) 1917–1919 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 101 x 200 W.1891
The Water-Lily Pond (right panel) 1917–1919 Private collection 100 x 200 W.1892
The Water Lily Pond
(half of original) 		1917–1919 Private collection 100 x 92 W.1893-1
The Water Lily Pond
(half of original) 		1917–1919 Private Collection 101 x 104 W.1893-2
Water Lilies 1917–1919 Private collection 100 x 200 W.1894
Water Lilies 1917–1919 Honolulu Museum of Art 100 x 200 W.1895
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima 100 x 200 W.1896
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Private collection 100 x 200 W.1897
Water-Lily Pond 1917-1919 Private collection 100 x 200 W. 1898
Water-Lily Pond 1917–1919 Albertina, Vienna 100 x 200 W.1899
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1920 Private collection 100 x 200 W.1900
The Water-Lily Pond (left side) 1917–1920 Location Unknown 100 x 70 W.1901/1
The Water-Lily Pond (right side) 1917–1920 Private Collection 97 x 130 W.1901/2
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1920 Private collection 46 x 56 W.1901a
The Water-Lily Pond 1917–1920 Private collection 86 x 90 W.1901b
Water Lilies 1919–1920 Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris 100 x 300 W.1902
Water-Lily Pond, Evening (left panel) 1920–1926 Kunsthaus Zurich 200 x 300 W.1964
Water-Lily Pond, Evening (right panel) 1920–1926 Kunsthaus Zurich 200 x 300 W.1965
Water-Lily Pond (left half) 1920–1926 Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima 200 x 150 W.1966
Water-Lily Pond (right half) 1920–1926 Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima 200 x 150 W.1967
Water-Lily Pond (triptych, left panel) 1920–1926 Beyeler Foundation, Basel 200 x 300 W.1968
Water-Lily Pond (triptych, center panel) 1920–1926 Beyeler Foundation, Basel 200 x 300 W.1969
Water-Lily Pond (triptych, right panel) 1920–1926 Beyeler Foundation, Basel 200 x 300 W.1970
Reflections of the Weeping Willow on the Water-Lily Pond 1920-26 Withdrawn by the artist 200 x 425 W.1971
Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond (triptych, left panel) 1920–1926 Museum of Modern Art, New York 200 x 424 W.1972
Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond (triptych, center panel) 1920–1926 Museum of Modern Art, New York 200 x 424 W.1973
Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond (triptych, right panel) 1920–1926 Museum of Modern Art, New York 200 x 424 W.1974
Water Lilies, Agapanthus (left panel) 1920–1926 Cleveland Museum of Art 200 x 425 W.1975
Water Lilies, Agapanthus (center panel) 1920–1926 Saint Louis Art Museum 200 x 425 W.1976
Water Lilies, Agapanthus (right panel) 1920–1926 Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City 200 x 425 W.1977
Water-Lilies 1920–1926 National Gallery, London 200 x 427 W.1978
The Water-Lily Pond, Green Reflections 1920–1926 Kunsthaus Zurich 200 x 425 W.1979
Water-Lily Pond with Irises 1920–1926 Kunsthaus Zurich 200 x 600 W.1980
Water Lilies 1920–1926 Museum of Modern Art, New York 200 x 600 W.1981
Water-Lily Pond 1920–1926 Museum of Modern Art, New York 200 x 602
(lost in fire) 		W.1982
Water-Lily Pond 1920–1926 Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh 200 x 600 W.1983
Sunset 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 600 First room: 1
The Clouds 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 1275 First room: 2a-c
Green Reflections 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 850 First room: 3a-b
Morning 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 1275 First room: 4a-d
Tree Reflections 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 850 Second room: 1a-b
Morning with Willows 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 1275 Second room 2a-c
The Two Willows 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 1700 Second room: 3a-d
Clear Morning with Willows 1914–1926 Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris 200 x 1275 Second room: 4a-c

See also

Further reading

  • Ross King (2017), Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

Notes

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  3. ^ Tucker, Paul Hayes, Monet in the '90s: The Series Paintings, 1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in association with Yale University Press, p. 41.
  4. ^ Susan Bell. "Paris sees Monet lilies in a new light." The Times. 8 May 1999.
  5. ^ Claude Monet paintings Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine at the Marmottan
  6. ^ Water Lilies Archived 21 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  7. ^ Water Lilies Archived 21 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine at the Art Institute of Chicago
  8. ^ Water Lilies Archived 11 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine at the Saint Louis Art Museum,
  9. ^ Water Lilies Archived 12 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
  10. ^ "July 8 Art Minute: Claude Monet, "Water Lilies"". The Toledo Museum of Art. 8 July 2016.
  11. ^ "Water Lilies (Agapanthus)". Cleveland Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  12. ^ "Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco". FAMSF. Archived from the original on 28 February 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  13. ^ "Boston's Museum Of Fine Arts Turns 150, Celebrates Monet's 'Lasting Impression'". NPR.org. 1 August 2020. Archived from the original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
  14. ^ Dalya Alberge. "Monet lilies make £18.5m but just miss world record." The Times. 20 June 2007.
  15. ^ The Laura Henry Collection "Monet masterpiece sells at auction for almost £41million" The Laura Henry Collection. 25 June 2008.
  16. ^ a b "Monet water lily to be auctioned at Christie's". BBC News. 3 June 2010. Retrieved 3 June 2010.
  17. ^ "Picasso reaches £34.7m in Christie's auction". BBC News. 24 June 2010. Archived from the original on 26 June 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2010.
  18. ^ Embuscado, Rain (12 May 2016). "Frida Kahlo Breaks Record at Christie's May Sale". News.artnet.com. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  19. ^ a b "Monet painting of waterlilies sells for $54 million at auction". Los Angeles Times. 26 June 2014. Archived from the original on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  20. ^ Denham, Jess (24 June 2014). "Claude Monet water lilies painting sells for £32m in second highest sale for his work". The Independent. Archived from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  21. ^ "CLAUDE MONET (1840–1926)". www.christies.com. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
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