A plant wave
The leaves start from the bottom, bend and fall. Their successive directions organize the painting without central axis or symmetry.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1924 -1925 · the irises of the Giverny garden
Dark leaves rise like a wave from the left edge; a few yellow flowers pierce this plant mass and stand out against a lilac background where the sky, water and light seem to merge.

Look at the work
The composition does not present an isolated bouquet. The irises occupy a continuous field of long curved leaves, cut by the edges of the canvas. The densest mass rises to the left, then descends to the right in a series of arcs which lead the eye to the orange flowers of the lower edge.
The light background is never empty. Monet superimposes touches of blue, pink, white and purple, without specifying whether it is a sky, a water surface or diffused light. Yellow flowers thus become points of intensity, rare and irregular, rather than a repeated decorative motif.
In this late canvas, the flower is no longer an object placed in front of a background: it appears as an instant of color in the middle of the movement of the leaves.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.

The leaves start from the bottom, bend and fall. Their successive directions organize the painting without central axis or symmetry.
The main flowers are not aligned. They punctuate the green at different heights and prevent the eye from stopping on a single center.
The lilacs, blue and pink, are placed in visible touches. They give air to the composition while retaining the materiality of the painting.
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 official image of the Marmottan Monet Museum measures 1500 × 1282 px. The two details of 900 × 1100 px and 850 × 850 px are native cropping, without oversampling. All three files are real WebPs.
Documented benchmarks
These facts concern this precise version and are verified from the notice of the institution which keeps it.
The Marmottan Monet Museum dates Les Iris jaunes between 1924 and 1925, at the end of the artist's long exploration of the Giverny garden.
The notice specifies that the painting is not signed. It measures 130 × 152 cm and corresponds to Wildenstein number 1839.
Preserved by the family, the painting entered the museum with the legacy of Michel Monet. It bears inventory number 5095.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The Yellow Irises |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1924 - 1925 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 130 × 152 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Marmottan Monet Museum, Paris, France |
| Inventory | 5095 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
This large, slightly horizontal square brings plant energy to the room without losing its softness. Deep greens and yellows match stone, linen, gray blue or sage green walls.
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