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Without the world’s first water lily nursery at Latour-Marliac, Monet may never have had any lilies to paint. This French garden inspired some of the world’s most famous paintings.

Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond, 1905.In earlier works, Monet painted the footbridge in a crisp, distinct arc. Here, its faint, shadowy curves blend into greenery of the natural surroundings.

Monet's ‘Water Lilies’ but make it 650,000 Legos. Season 2 Episode 14 | 4m 10s Video has Closed Captions | CC. At Seattle Asian Art Museum, Ai Weiwei shows his toy-brick homage to the painter.

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 ...

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 ...

The gallery post carried a picture of the painting, apparently a 1908 work from Claude Monet’s Nymphéas series depicting the famous water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France, along with the ...

The post included a close-up photo of the painting, supposedly a 1908 Nymphéas measuring 100cm X 100cm (39 inches x 39 inches) – one of hundreds the French Impressionist master painted of water ...

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 ...

It will mark the first appearance at auction for the water lily painting, which was created 125 years ago and was one of the artist’s earliest depictions of the subject, which would become his muse.

That is about $650,000 in today’s money, and it pales in comparison to the $80 million water lily paintings change hands for now. “It was very forward thinking,” Ameringer said, laughing.