An iconic work by Ohara
The museum's documentation dates the painting to around 1906 and gives a format of 73 × 92.5 cm. It belongs to the Western masterpieces gathered at Kurashiki.
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Artwork description
Claude Monet · circa 1906 · Ohara Museum of Art · W1689
In this very clear version, large discs of leaves occupy the left half while mauve-blue water remains almost bare on the right. A few pink and yellow flowers are enough to liven up the pool. The painting, kept at the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, is listed as Wildenstein 1689.

Look at the work
Plant mass descends from the upper left corner to the lower center. On the right, thin vertical reflections and a few isolated leaves maintain balance. This asymmetry gives the impression that the pool continues beyond the frame.
The olive greens of the leaves are surrounded by darker lines. Around them, the water changes from pale blue to lilac and pink. The rubbed areas let the colors breathe, while the flowers receive thicker touches.
W1689 makes emptiness a color: the blue-mauve expanse matters as much as the water lilies themselves.
Composition, touch and light
Three precise elements allow us to understand this composition and the essential difficulties of faithful reproduction.
The museum's documentation dates the painting to around 1906 and gives a format of 73 × 92.5 cm. It belongs to the Western masterpieces gathered at Kurashiki.
Opened in 1930, the Ohara Museum of Art is Japan's first private museum primarily devoted to Western art. This painting by Monet has become one of his most recognized images.
Monet shows neither the bridge nor the edge of the pool. Changes in leaf scale, reflections and water intervals are enough to build depth.
Reference image
Only one image is used: the full view of W1689, converted to a true WebP of 3000 × 2345 px, without artificial enlargement.
Groups must maintain their irregular progression from the top left. The distances between the discs are as important as their outline.
Softness depends on fine transitions. The leaves remain firmer and warmer than water, whose cold tones overlap without becoming uniform.
Water requires wide and light passages; the flowers and the edges of the leaves bear a denser material. This contrast makes the surface come alive.
Documented benchmarks
The Ohara Museum of Art documents this 73 × 92.5 cm canvas, corresponding to Wildenstein number 1689.
This oil on horizontal canvas is dated around 1906. Its framing and arrangement of the leaves allow it to be distinguished from dozens of other water landscapes from the same period.
The work is kept in the institution founded by Magosaburo Ohara to present to the Japanese public a major collection of Western art.
The painter observes a garden that he himself designed, but transforms this real place into an autonomous pictorial space made of water, flowers and reflections.
Your reproduction
Fidelity here depends on precise relationships between light, touch, depth and color temperature.
| Title | Water lilies W1689 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Claude Monet (1840 -1926) |
| Date | around 1906 |
| Original technique | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73 × 92.5 cm |
| Orientation | Horizontal |
| Conservation | Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan |
| Inventory | Wildenstein 1689 |
| Your reproduction | Handmade oil painting on canvas |
Presentation in your interior
The light palette creates a feeling of calm and openness. This reproduction fits into a living room, bedroom or reading space with blond wood, ecru linen and gray blue shades.
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