Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Monet Water Lilies, Orangerie Museum




Claude Monet The Water Lilies

The Water Lilies was given to the French State by the painter Claude Monet after Armistice, November 11, 1918, as a symbol for peace.   Orangerie Museum in 1927 installed The Water Lilies a few months after Monet's death and, the set is one of the most significant monumental achievements of early twentieth-century painting. 

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