Water Lilies Evening Effect

Claude Monet

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Work Overview

Water Lilies, Evening Effect
Claude Monet
Date: 1897 - 1899
Style: Impressionism
Series: Water Lilies
Genre: flower painting
oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm


This painting is one of the eight preliminary studies for the waterlilies decorations on wich Monet began working as early as 1897. Claude Monet painted Waterlilies, night effect from 1897 to 1898. He began the construction of his water garden in 1893 and, with a gardener's patience, waited several years as the new plantings took root and water lilies bloomed.


Monet did not paint the garden until 1897, when he produced a set of studies of the flowers as they floated on the surface of the pond. The contrast of the luminous pale petals and the nearly opaque water intrigued him, but he set the studies aside, uncertain how to proceed with his subject.