Description
Claude Monet – Le bassin aux nymphéas
| Year of creation: | 1919 |
| Original size: | 201 cm x 100.4 cm |
| Painting style: | Impressionism |
| Original technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Located: | Private Collection |
There are approximately 250 paintings in the series of oils on canvas with the motif of water lilies. In the paintings, the painter depicted his rose garden in Giverny, and water lilies were the main subject of Monet’s paintings during the last thirty years of his life.
The oil on canvasLe bassin aux nymphéas (Pool with Water Lilies) was sold at Christie’s auction in London for around 50 million euros.
The painting was created in 1919 in Giverny, France and has only been publicly exhibited once in the past 80 years.
