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Immerse yourself in Monet’s masterpiece: Les Nymphéas

06 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Trailblazer Travel Books in Paris Wanderings

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French art, French painters, Monet's Nymphéas, Musée de l'Orangerie. Monet, No Worries Paris, Paris blogs, Paris museums, paris walks, water lilly paintings

Imagine, a circular room…covered with water, dotted with these plants to the very horizon, walls of a transparency alternately green and mauve, the calm and silence of the still waters reflecting the open blossoms. The tones are vague, deliciously nuanced, with a dreamlike delicacy. —Claude Monet, 1898

On April 12, 1922 Claude Monet signed a contract donating the Nymphéas series of decorative panels painted on canvas to the French government, to be housed in redesigned, oval rooms at the Orangerie. Unwilling to relinquish his final works of art, these water lilies paintings stayed with Monet until his death on December 5, 1926. On January 31, 1927 the panels were mounted (a process that involved gluing the canvas directly to the walls), and the paintings were in place by March 26 of that year. On May 17, 1927 Monet’s Nymphéas at the Musée de l’Orangerie opened to the public.


Be sure to take a close look at the rough sculptural surfaces, layers upon layers of unblended paint, reflections, shadows of weeping willows, a landscapes with no horizon. Patches of genius are incorporated into one gigantic masterpiece. Sit a spell in quiet meditation. You’ll feel Monet’s presence.

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