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MONET, Claude: The Water-Lily Pond

🖼 The Water-Lily Pond, 1917-1919
Oil on canvas
130 × 120 cm
Paris, France

Soft brushstrokes dissolve the Japanese bridge into shimmering reflections, where water and sky merge in luminous blues and greens. Monet's late series captures fleeting light effects obsessively, revolutionizing how abstraction emerges from observed nature and influencing modernism's visual language.

Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
Daniel Wildenstein
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