A central void filled with color
The purple passage contains gray, pink and blue. It must remain calm but never uniform, because its small variations give the main depth of the canvas.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1919 · Metropolitan Museum · W1891
Pink, yellow and white water lilies open onto olive green water crossed by a broad purple reflection. The absence of a horizon tightens the paint on the surface of the pool, while the floating leaves form two irregular banks around a calmer central area. This 1919 version combines panoramic breadth with a still very readable touch.

Look at the work
The leaves are concentrated on the left, the lower edge and the right part. Their oval shapes remain open, made of green, yellow, blue and brown. Red and pink flowers are more numerous in the upper half, while a few larger cream corollas stabilize the foreground.
In the center, a purple and blue-gray vertical crosses the water without becoming an identifiable object. It acts as breathing between masses of vegetation. On the right, a denser green reflection descends from the top and responds to the large circular leaves at the bottom.
The subject is not a collection of flowers: Monet organizes densities around an interval of light that makes the entire pelvis breathe.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.

The purple passage contains gray, pink and blue. It must remain calm but never uniform, because its small variations give the main depth of the canvas.
Water lilies are constructed in curved and broken touches. Surrounding them with a dark line or repeating the same shape would remove their floating and diversity of distances.
Pink, red, yellow and cream are mainly concentrated at the top and sides. Their irregular sizes and spacing prevent the composition from becoming decorative.
Details and visual documents
The additional images show the difficult-to-read passages in the full view and, where it exists, the actual appearance of the work at the museum.


The Metropolitan Museum's high-definition view measures 4,000 × 2,039 px. The actual photograph at the museum measures 1,235 × 619 px and the native detail 1,800 × 1,600 px. No files have been enlarged; all three media outlets have been controlled as true WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
The Metropolitan Museum dates this oil on canvas to 1919. It measures 101 × 200 cm and bears the signature and date Claude Monet 1919 at the bottom left. The catalog raisonné records it under number 1891.
The Met indicates that Monet created this painting and three similar compositions with their sale in mind. Despite his reluctance to part with his recent works, he wrote to Gaston and Josse Bernheim that he was working passionately on this group, which the two merchants quickly purchased.
The work belongs to the Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection. Given to the Met in 1998 then completed by the bequest of Walter H. Annenberg in 2002, it is exhibited at Fifth Avenue in gallery 822.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Water Lilies, Metropolitan Museum W1891 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1919 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 101 × 200 cm |
| Orientation | Panoramic horizontal |
| Conservation | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States |
| Inventory | 1998.325.2 · Wildenstein 1891 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Olive green, mauve, coral pink, creamy yellow and gray blue form a rich but peaceful palette. The panoramic format is suitable above a sofa, bed or base unit, on an ivory, light taupe or gray green wall.
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