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Blue Water Lilies - Claude Monet - Hand Painted Oil Painting suits both traditional and modern interiors. As a still life oil painting, it works as a standalone focal point or as part of a hallway gallery wall, and unlike a print it is genuinely hand painted in oils.
c.1916-1919
Oil on canvas
204 x 200 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
"Nymphaea" is the botanical name for a water lily. Monet grew white water lilies in the water garden he had installed in his property at Giverny in 1893. From the 1910s until he died in 1926, the garden and its pond in particular, became the artist's sole source of inspiration. He said: "I have come back to things that are impossible to do: water with weeds waving in the depths. Apart from painting and gardening, I am good for nothing. My greatest masterpiece is my garden."
Eliminating the horizon and the sky, Monet focused on a small area of the pond, seen as a piece of nature, almost a close-up. No details stand out and the overall impression is one of a shapeless surface. The square format reinforces the neutrality of the composition. The lack of a frame of reference gives the fragment an infinite, limitless feeling.
Never was the artist's brushstroke so free, so detached from the description of forms. A close-up view of the canvas gives a feeling of total abstraction, because the brushstrokes are stronger than the identification of the plants or their reflections. The viewer has to make a constant visual and mental effort to piece together the landscape suggested in the painting. The unfinished borders accentuate this insistence on painting as a surface covered with paint, which was not lost on artists after the Second World War, particularly American painters exploring "abstract landscapes" and "lyrical abstraction."
Every hand painted oil painting in this still life series is finished on artist-grade canvas and checked against the original before it leaves the studio.
We use a 100% hand-painted process: stretched artist-grade canvas, layered oil pigment, and a final protective varnish. There are no inkjet prints or mechanical reproductions in this collection — just a painted still life artwork made to order.
Build a hallway gallery wall around this still life oil painting, or let it stand alone as a single statement. The hand painted canvas finish keeps the still life composition looking intentional in both classic and contemporary rooms.
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| 20 X 20 in | $49.98 |
| 24 X 24 in | $62.48 |
| 30 X 30 in | $90.48 |
| 36 X 36 in | $142.48 |
| 40 X 40 in | $171.48 |
| 48 X 48 in | $215.98 |
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