With its jewel-toned palette and expressive brushwork, “Reflections” deepens the narrative of Monet’s artistic career.

It’s also the only water lily painting Monet was photographed working ... capturing the changing light and atmosphere.” Even ...

This marked the beginning of his most famous series of paintings—Water Lilies. Claude Monet started working on a project that would later become known as his Water Lilies series in 1899.

In Water Lilies #1, Ai probes notions of reality and artifice. Although Monet’s word-famous painting represents the epitome of natural beauty, the pond and gardens he depicts were in fact a man-made ...