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Nothing softens a dining room like a painted surface. Water Lilies 1903 by Claude Monet arrives as a hand painted oil painting on canvas, offering the still life detail, soft gradients, and tactile finish that still life oil painting shoppers look for.
1903
Oil on canvas
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, United States.
Monet’s painting is one of hundreds he did of his lush garden and lily pond surrounding his home in Giverny, some 30 miles outside Paris. After moving there in 1886 he gradually added plantings carefully designed so that some portions would be in bloom nearly year round. As his fame and popularity grew, he was able to acquire an additional strip of land in 1893 where he dammed a creek to make a pond. These gardens and the lily pond became the primary focus of his art for the last 40 years of his life.
Today it is sometimes hard to appreciate how radical the waterlily paintings were when Monet painted them. The pond and the lilies floating on it are seen from close to the water’s surface. While we instinctively know the water is parallel to the earth as it recedes away from us, we just as quickly accept Monet’s depiction of it on the vertical plane of the canvas. And, as he did consistently throughout his remarkably productive career, Monet records with paint his careful observation of nature at differing times of day, here the reflections of trees and sky on the water’s surface. Commenting on Monet’s keen powers of observation, fellow Impressionist Paul Cézanne said, “Monet is only an eye, but what an eye!”
As dining room wall art, the piece pairs naturally with other impressionist wall art and with warm neutrals, timber, and soft natural light.
Oil on canvas remains the reference standard for impressionist reproductions. Our artists apply pigment by hand, blending the still life tones directly on the surface for depth that a printed still life oil painting simply cannot match.
impressionist canvas wall art is one of the easiest ways to warm a dining room. Pair this piece with natural linen, dark wood, or brushed brass, and let the hand painted surface do the rest.
| Size | Price |
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| 20 X 24 in | $47.98 |
| 24 X 36 in | $77.98 |
| 30 X 40 in | $104.48 |
| 36 X 48 in | $149.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $291.98 |
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