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Artwork description
Claude Monet · 1907 · Artizon Museum · W1715
The basin unfolds vertically like a depth without a bank. A pink light passes through the reflection of the willows, while groups of water lilies form increasingly close levels. The painting brings together the real water, floating vegetation and inverted landscape in a single vibrant surface.
Look at the work
The upper part is dense and dark, then a large luminous opening reaches the center and lower left. The leaves are divided into arcs and interrupted bands. Those in the foreground appear larger, but the depth comes mainly from the overlap of reflections.
The pale vermilion pink reported by the Artizon Museum dialogues with purples, blues and dark greens. The leaves receive silver and turquoise accents. Warm colors therefore never remain isolated: they are taken up and cooled throughout the water.
W1715 makes the pool a double-reading space: water lilies assert the surface, while reflected willows open a vertical depth.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The Artizon Museum specifies that Monet painted fifteen vertically oriented compositions that year. This choice lowers the reflections over the entire height and distances the painting from the traditional horizontal landscape.
The large pink area can evoke the evening light reflected in the pool. However, it is not uniform: touches of green, purple and gray cross it, maintaining the sensation of moving water.
Groups of water lilies cut reflections at different heights. This alternation brings the gaze back to the surface plane, then lets it plunge back into the dark masses. Reproduction must keep these intervals open.
Reference image
Only one reference image is displayed. The best exact public file measures 783 × 1075 px; it was kept at its native definition and re-encoded into real WebP, without artificial enlargement.
The top leaves form fine lines, the central ones a more continuous band and the bottom ones form isolated groups. Their progressive scale animates the rectangle without creating a rigid perspective.
Pink brings light, purple and green give depth. Silver accents on the leaves prevent dark areas from closing in.
Water lilies are treated with lateral markings and reflections with vertical descents. The meeting of these gestures constructs the surface more surely than a drawn outline.
Documented benchmarks
This information concerns the Wildenstein 1715 version of the Artizon Museum, collection of the Ishibashi Foundation.
The Water Lilies Basin is an oil on canvas from 1907 measuring 100.6 × 73.5 cm. It is kept in Tokyo by the Ishibashi Foundation.
This canvas belongs to the vertical group painted in 1907. Several versions are today divided between public and private collections, each giving a different role to reflections, leaves and time.
Monet transforms his water garden into a pictorial laboratory. Here, he completely eliminates the Japanese bank and bridge in order to focus the gaze on the mirror of the water and its color changes.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | The Water Lilies Basin W1715 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | 1907 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 100.6 × 73.5 cm |
| Orientation | Vertical |
| Conservation | Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 1715 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
Pale vermilion pink, plum purple, blue green, silver and midnight blue give this reproduction a deep and meditative atmosphere. It works in a bedroom, living room or reading space with walnut and natural textiles.
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