Waterlilies

The Water Lilies painted by French Impressionist Claude Monet is a series of paintings of water lilies, made near the pond in the garden of his studio in Giverny. Monet had admired the Asian water lilies at the 1889 World's Fair and they inspired him to create a series of eponymous paintings. Monet made many different versions of these works and painted eighteen different water lily paintings between 1899-1900 alone. This instalment of Water Lilies represents a return to his earlier, bolder style of brushwork. Money used spots of brighter colour to accentuate certain areas of the composition, which is dissimilar to some of his other work with a more subtle use of colour.