# Water Lilies, in Impressionism

Claude Monet painted this in 1906, aged 66. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> There is no shoreline and no sky here, only the surface of Monet’s lily pond at Giverny seen up close, with thickly painted pink and white blossoms floating on water that holds reflections of the light above, while a band of shadow falls across the top.

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## The work

- Date: 1906
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 89.9 × 94.1 cm (35 3/8 × 37 1/16 in.); Framed: 103.2 × 107 × 5.8 cm (40 5/8 × 42 1/8 × 2 1/4 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.1157
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Claude Monet](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/claude-monet), French, 1840–1926

Monet grew up in Le Havre, where Eugène Boudin encouraged him to paint outdoors. In Paris he met Renoir, Sisley and Bazille, and his Impression, Sunrise gave the Impressionist movement its name in 1874.

10 works in the collection.

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