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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1906 · Mahmoud Khalil Museum · W1695
Two groups of water lilies frame a large gap of creamy pink light. In the water, the green and blue reflections of the trees mingle with the clouds while the leaves remain clearly placed on the surface. Signed and dated 1906, this version marks the moment when Monet eliminates all shore to make the basin an autonomous world.
Look at the work
The composition is organized around an irregular luminous space that crosses the center. The leaves form two main groups, one near the upper edge and the other in the lower half. Their arrangement provides a visual passage between foreground and reflected depth.
Warm greens mix with turquoise and blue gray. The central light is never white: it contains pink, peach and small traces of purple. A few brighter flowers punctuate the leaf masses and prevent the general softness from erasing the details.
W1695 makes the pond an unstable mirror: the leaves float in front of a light that seems to come from much further away.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
In 1906, Monet looked directly at the surface of the basin. The traditional elements of the landscape disappear; the sky and the trees only remain through their reflections. This deletion makes the orientation of the painting deliberately ambiguous.
The inscription "Claude Monet 1906" appears at the bottom right. The catalog raisonné identifies this version under number 1695 and links it to the group of water landscapes prepared for the major Durand-Ruel exhibition of 1909.
The painting belongs to the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum. This Egyptian collection brings together several major French works from the 19th and 20th centuries and preserves this horizontal version of 81 × 100 cm.
Reference image
Only one reference image is used. The full view of the Cairo version is preserved as a true WebP of 2000 × 1654 px, without artificial enlargement.
The top and bottom leaves never completely close the space. Their irregularities give the light passage a moving shape and prevent decorative symmetry.
Cool colors dominate the edges, while the center receives diffused heat. Pink and white flowers provide the transition between these two areas.
Water lilies require firmer material and interrupted contours. The reflections must remain transparent, crossed by vertical and horizontal gestures which respond to each other.
Documented benchmarks
The instructions for the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum version and the catalog raisonné identify this painting as Wildenstein 1695.
This oil on canvas from 1906 measures 81 × 100 cm. It is signed and dated "Claude Monet 1906" at the bottom right.
The work is kept in Cairo in the museum built around the collection of Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil and his wife.
Monet worked intensely on the basin between 1903 and 1908. By removing the bank, he brought together on the same plane the real flowers, the reflected sky and the off-camera vegetation.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Water lilies W1695 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1906 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 81 × 100 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum, Cairo, Egypt |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 1695 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Sage green, turquoise, cream pink and gray blue create a clear and refined atmosphere. This reproduction is suitable for a living room, bedroom or dining room with natural wood, beige and a discreet gold frame.
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