Little did Claude Monet know that the water garden he created three years after buying his Giverny, France, property in 1890 would become his primary inspiration over the next two and a half decades. These paintings, numbering around 250, mark Monet\u2019s artistic journey from more straightforward depictions of the pond spanned by the wooden Japanese bridge to the monumental and near-abstract series on the water lily theme he made in preparation for his murals at the Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie in Paris between 1914 and 1926.<\/p>\n
Water Lilies<\/em>, one of a group of paintings on the subject made between 1903 and 1908, comes at the midpoint of Monet\u2019s developing style and spatial experimentations. The nearly square format underscores his move away from painting the conventional zones of land, sky, and water to focus solely on the water\u2019s surface. Clusters of water lilies at bottom left and top right frame a watery path, while the water\u2019s surface reflects trees and clouds. Although the dreamlike quality of floating forms might seem to be a natural development for the artist, he considered these works \u201can obsession,\u201d a sentiment borne out by technical examinations on the Art Institute\u2019s canvas, revealing many significant changes made to the painting in progress.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"89.9 \u00d7 94.1 cm (35 3\/8 \u00d7 37 1\/16 in.); Framed: 103.2 \u00d7 107 \u00d7 5.8 cm (40 5\/8 \u00d7 42 1\/8 \u00d7 2 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":94,"height":89,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":5,"width":107,"height":103,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower right: Claude Monet 1906","credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Galeries Durand-Ruel, Les nymph\u00e9as, s\u00e9ries de paysages d\u2019eau par Claude Monet, exh. cat. (Galeries Durand-Ruel, 1909), cat. 15. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 162, cat. 2139. \n\nGustave Geffroy, \u201cClaude Monet,\u201d L\u2019art et les artistes 2, 11 (Nov. 1920), p. 73 (ill.).\n\nM. C., \u201cMonets in the Art Institute,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, 2 (Feb. 1925), p. 20.\n\nDaniel Catton Rich, \u201cFranz\u00f6sische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,\u201d Pantheon: Monatsschrift f\u00fcr freunde und sammler der kunst 11, 3 (Mar. 1933), p. 77. Translated by C. C. H. Drechsel as \u201cFrench Impressionists in the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Pantheon\/Cicerone (Mar. 1933), p. 18.\n\nToledo Museum of Art, Catalogue: Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (Toledo Museum of Art, 1937), cat. 16 (ill.).\n\nGeorge Slocombe, \u201cGiver of Light,\u201d Coronet (Mar. 1938), p. 26 (ill.).\n\nScottish Rite Temple, Central Illinois Art Exposition, exh. cat. (Scottish Rite Temple, 1939), p. 13, cat. 26.\n\nArts Club of Chicago, Origins of Modern Art, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1940), p. 15, cat. 63.\n\nOscar Reutersw\u00e4rd, Monet: En konstn\u00e4rshistorik (Bonniers, 1948), p. 288.\n\nWichita Art Museum, Three Centuries of French Painting, exh cat. (Wichita Art Museum, 1954), p. 3, cat. 17.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cCatalogue,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 51, 2 (Apr. 1, 1957), p. 34.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 322.1679\n\nA. James Speyer, \u201cTwentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,\u201d Apollo 84, no. 55 (Sept. 1966), p. 222.\n\nDenis Rouart and Jean-Dominique Rey, Monet, nymph\u00e9as, ou Les miroirs du temps, with a cat. rais. by Robert Maillard (Hazan, 1972), p. 159 (ill.). Translated by David RadzinowiczasMonet, Water Lilies: The Complete Series, rev. ed., with a cat. rais. by Julie Rouart with Camille Sourisse (Flammarion\/Rizzoli, 2008), p. 124 (ill.).\n\nGrace Seiberling, \u201cThe Evolution of an Impressionist,\u201d in Paintings by Monet, ed. Susan Wise, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), pp. 37, 38.\n\nSusan Wise, ed., Paintings by Monet, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1975), p. 167, cat. 110 (ill.).\n\nGrace Seiberling, Monet\u2019s Series (Garland, 1981), pp. 228; 407, no. 33; fig. 33.\n\nA. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 59, cat. 3B3; microfiche 3, no. B3 (ill.).\n\nMus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec and Art Institute of Chicago, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980), p. 35, no. 15 (ill.); 67.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Seibu Museum of Art, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, and Fukuoka Art Museum, eds., Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten [The Impressionist tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Nippon Television Network, 1985), pp. 126, cat. 64 (ill.); 127 (detail); 161.\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, ed., Monet: A Retrospective (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1985), pp. 255; 263, pl. 103.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Claude Monet: Biographie et catalogue raisonn\u00e9, vol. 4, Peintures, 1899\u20131926 (Biblioth\u00e8que des Arts, 1985), pp. 214; 215, cat. 1683 (ill.); 376, letters 1885, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891; 377, letter 1897; 429, pi\u00e9ces justificative 213, 215.\n\nChristian Geelhaar, et al., Claude Monet: Nymph\u00e9as, Impression, Vision, exh. cat. (Kunstmuseum Basel, 1986), pp. 52, cat. 22 (ill.); 173.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abrams, 1987), pp. 111; 115 (ill.); 118. \n\nCharles F. Stuckey, Monet, Water Lilies (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1988), p. 37, pl. 12.\n\nAndrew Forge, Monet, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago, 1995), pp. 63 (detail); 65; 102, pl. 31; 109.\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, with the assistance of Sophia Shaw, Claude Monet, 1840\u20131926, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Thames & Hudson, 1995), pp. 152, cat. 130 (ill.); 241; 243.\n\nPaul Hayes Tucker, \u201cPassion and Patriotism in Monet\u2019s Late Work,\u201d in New Orleans Museum of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Monet: Late Paintings of Giverny from the Mus\u00e9e Marmottan, exh. cat. (New Orleans Museum of Art\/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\/Abrams, 1995), pp. 37, fig. 10; 40.\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Monet, or The Triumph of Impressionism, cat. rais., vol. 1 (Taschen\/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), p. 358, cat. 1683 (ill.).\n\nDaniel Wildenstein, Monet: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9\/Werkverzeichnis, vol. 4, Nos. 1596\u20131983 et les grandes d\u00e9corations (Taschen\/Wildenstein Institute, 1996), p. 764, cat. 1638 (ill.); 765.\n\nJames N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 11 (ill.).\n\nLynn Gamwell, \u201cArcadian Impulses in Avant-Garde Art,\u201d in Donald Kuspit and Lynn Gamwell, Health and Happiness in 20th-Century Avant-Garde Art, exh. cat. (Cornell University Press\/Binghamton University Art Museum, State University of New York, 1996), pp. 52; 55, fig. 37.\n\nDonald Kuspit, \u201cHappiness, Health, and Related Anomalies of Avant-Garde Art,\u201d in Donald Kuspit and Lynn Gamwell, Health and Happiness in 20th-Century Avant-Garde Art, exh. cat. (Cornell University Press\/Binghamton University Art Museum, State University of New York, 1996), p. 44.\n\nGenevieve Morgan, ed., Monet: The Artist Speaks (Collins, 1996), pp. 81 (ill.), 95.\n\nMeyer Schapiro, Impressionism: Reflections and Perceptions (Braziller, 1997), pp. 198\u201399, fig. 98; 220.\n\nVictor I. Stoichita, A Short History of the Shadow (Reaktion, 1997), pp. 107\u201308, ill. 36; 109; 208\n\nWarren Adelson, \u201cIn the Modernist Camp,\u201d in Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, by Warren Adelson, Donna Seldin Janis, Elaine Kilmurray, Richard Ormond, and Elizabeth Oustinoff (Abbeville, 1997), pp. 28; 29, pl. 16; 39.\n\nRichard Ormond, \u201cIn the Alps,\u201d in Warren Adelson, Donna Seldin Janis, Elaine Kilmurray, Richard Ormond, and Elizabeth Oustinoff, Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes (Abbeville, 1997), p. 100.\n\nVivian Russell, Monet\u2019s Water Lilies (Little, Brown\/Frances Lincoln, 1998), pp. 64\u201365 (ill.), 93.\n\nGeorge T. M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, \u201cWater Lilies (Series of Water Landscapes), 1903\u20131909,\u201d in Paul Hayes Tucker, with George T. M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, Monet in the 20th Century, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts, London\/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston\/Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 148; 158 (detail); 159, cat. 32 (ill.).\n\nPaul Hayes Tucker, \u201cThe Revolution in the Garden: Monet in the Twentieth Century,\u201d in Paul Hayes Tucker, with George T. M. Shackelford and MaryAnne Stevens, Monet in the 20th Century, exh. cat. (Royal Academy of Arts, London\/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston\/Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 44\u201345.\n\nConnaissance des Arts and Pierre Georgel, \u201cMonet: L\u2019art de la m\u00e9taphore,\u201d Connaissance des arts 561 (May 1999), pp. 44\u201345, fig. 2.\n\n\u201cMonet, les nymph\u00e9as: L\u2019exposition,\u201d special issue, Connaissance des arts, 137 (Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Fran\u00e7aise de Promotion Artistique, 1999), pp. 14\u201315, ill. 13.\n\nPierre Geogel, with the assistance of Chantal Georgel and Jacqueline S\u00e9journ\u00e9, Monet: Le cycle des Nymph\u00e9as, Catalogue sommaire, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e National de l\u2019Orangerie\/R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1999), pp. 38; 92, cat. 15 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago\/Hudson Hills, 2000), p. 163 (ill.).\n\nDebra N. Mancoff, Monet\u2019s Garden in Art (Viking Studio, 2001), pp. 60 (detail), 66\u201367 (detail), 143.\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, \u201cMonet\u2019s Late Work from the Vantage Point of Modernism,\u201d in Monet and Modernism, ed. Karin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, exh. cat. (Prestel, 2001), p. 25.\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, \u201cThe Waterlilies in Giverny and the Grande D\u00e9coration,\u201d in Monet and Modernism, ed. Karin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, exh. cat. (Prestel, 2001), pp. 68, 76 (ill.).\n\nJames Tanaka, Daniel Weiskopf, and Pepper Williams, \u201cThe Role of Color in High-Level Vision,\u201d TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 5, 5 (May 2001), p. 213, fig. 1.\n\nSothebys, New York, Impressionist and Modern Art, Part One, sale cat. (Sotheby\u2019s, Nov. 5, 2002), pp. 45, fig. 3; 46.\n\nDebra N. Mancoff, Monet: Nature into Art (Publications International, 2003), pp. 103, 111 (ill.).\n\nLisa Stein, \u201cSeeing Beyond the Must-Sees,\u201d Chicago Tribune, Apr. 18, 2003, section 7, p. 1 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide,rev. ed., selected by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago, 2003), p. 246 (ill.)\n\nMargaret Werth, \u201c\u2018A Long Entwined Effort\u2019: Colonizing Giverny,\u201d in Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885\u20131915, ed. Katherine M. Bourguignon, exh. cat. (Terra Foundation for American Art\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Am\u00e9ricain Giverny\/University of Chicago Press, 2007), p. 70, fig. 13.\n\nEric M. Zafran, \u201cMonet in America,\u201d in Wildenstein and Co., Claude Monet (1840\u20131926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff, exh. cat. (Wildenstein, 2007), p. 113.\n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Kimbell Art Museum, 2008), pp. 161; 163; 174\u201375, cat. 91 (ill.). Simultaneously published as Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 161; 163; 174\u201375, cat. 91 (ill.). \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Essential Guide (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), p. 232 (ill.).\n\n\u201cCat. 44: Water Lilies, 1906\u201d in Monet Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/monet\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/135470<\/a>.\n\nAnne-Birgitte Fonsmark and Dorthe Vangsgaard Nielsen, Monet: Beyond Impressionism, exh. cat. (Charlottenlund: Ordrupgaard, 2016) 161, 214, fig. 116.\n\nGeorge T. M. Shackelford, Monet:The Late Years, exh. cat. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 62-63 (detail ill.), 114, 118 cat. 6, 210\n\nGloria Groom, et. al. Monet and Chicago, exh. Cat. (Chicago: Art Institute, 2020), cover ill., 29, 30 fig. 9, 123 cat. 78, 141.\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 89 (ill.).\n\nAdriano Pedrosa and Fernando Oliva, eds., Monet's Ecology, exh. cat. (S\u00e3o Paulo: Museu de Arte de S\u00e3o Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2005), 39 fig. 26, 40.\n\nRejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, exh. cat. (Beijing: Gu gong chu ban she, 2025), 253 (ill.), cat. 154.\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 152, 262, no. 111, (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Les nymph\u00e9as: S\u00e9ries de paysages d\u2019eau par Claude Monet, May 6\u2013June 5, 1909, cat. 15, as S\u00e9rie 1906. \n\nSaint Louis, Noonan-Kocian Gallery, Tableaux Durand-Ruel (circuit exhibition, held Oct. 1911\u2013Jan. 1912); Chicago, Auditorium Hotel; Cincinnati, no cat. no. \n\nToledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 7\u2013Dec. 12, 1937, cat. 16 (ill.).\n\nBloomington, Ill., Scottish Rite Temple, Central Illinois Art Exposition, Mar. 19\u2013Apr. 8, 1939, cat. 26.\n\nChicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Origins of Modern Art, Apr. 2\u201330, 1940, cat. 63.\n\nSioux City (Iowa) Art Center, Three Old Masters from Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 4\u2013end Sept. 1949, no cat. \n\nPittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, An Experimental Gallery Featuring the Art Historical Background to Impressionism, Oct. 12, 1953\u2013Mar. 31, 1954, no cat. \n\nWichita (Kans.) Art Museum, Three Centuries of French Painting, May 9\u201323, 1954, cat. 17.\n\nUniversity of Chicago, Renaissance Society, Painters in Color, Oct. 14\u2013Nov. 14, 1956, no cat. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, The Paintings of Claude Monet, Apr. 1\u2013June 15, 1957, no cat. no. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, Mar. 15\u2013May 11, 1975, cat. 110 (ill.). \n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27\u2013Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 15 (ill.).\n\nHighland Park, Ill., Neison Harris, July 12\u2013Dec. 19, 1984, no cat. \n\nTokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten [The impressionist tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago], Oct. 18\u2013Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 64 (ill.); Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5\u2013Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4\u2013Apr. 13, 1986.\n\nBasel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Claude Monet: Nymph\u00e9as, July 20\u2013Oct. 19, 1986, cat. 22 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Chicago\u2019s Dream, a World\u2019s Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago 1893\u20131993, Nov. 1\u2013Jan. 9, 1994, no cat. no. \n\nChicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet 1840\u20131926, July 22\u2013Nov. 26, 1995, cat. 130 (ill.). \n\nBoston, Museum of Fine Arts, Monet in the 20th Century, Sept. 20\u2013Dec. 27, 1998, cat. 32 (ill.); London, Royal Academy of Arts, Jan. 23\u2013Apr. 18, 1999; Kunsthaus Zurich, May 6-August 8, 1999.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e National de l\u2019Orangerie, Monet: Le cycle des Nymph\u00e9as, May 6\u2013Aug. 2, 1999, cat. 15 (ill.).\n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 91 (ill.).\n\nCharlottenlund, Ordrupgaard, Monet: Beyond Impressionism, August 24-December 4, 2016, fig. 106. \n\nSan Francisco, De Young Museum, Monet: The Late Years, February 16 - May 27 2019, cat. 6; Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, June 6 - September 15 2019. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Monet and Chicago, September 5, 2020-June 14, 2021, cat. 78.\n\nBeijing, Palace Museum, Garden Cultures of China and the West, Apr. 1\u2013June 30, 2025; Suzhou Museum, July 19\u2013Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025\u2013Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23\u2013July 29, 2026.\n\nBeijing, Palace Museum, Rejoicing in Woods and Springs: A Journey through Garden Cultures in China and the Wider World, Apr. 1\u2013June 30, 2025, cat. 154; Suzhou China, Suzhou Museum, July 19\u2013Oct. 31, 2025; Ningbo, China, Ningbo Museum, Dec. 5, 2025\u2013Mar. 8, 2026; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Apr. 23\u2013July 29, 2026.","provenance_text":"The artist (d. 1926); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris (3\/4 interest), and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (1\/4 interest), June 3, 1909, for 14,000 francs [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1901\u201313 (no. 9082, as Les nymph\u00e9as, paysage d\u2019eau, s\u00e9rie de 1906), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Henri Bernstein, Paris, May 29, 1909, for 20,000 francs [see previous: the Durand-Ruel Archives notes that \u201cthe apparent chronological anomaly between the dates of the purchase and of the sale is not unusual\u201d]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Aug. 9, 1909, for 20,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1901\u201313 (no. 9134, as Les nymph\u00e9as, paysage d\u2019eau, s\u00e9rie de 1906), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; on deposit to Durand-Ruel, New York, Apr. 1911 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, deposit book for 1894\u20131925 (no. 7606, as Les nymph\u00e9as, paysage d\u2019eau, s\u00e9rie de 1906), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, Feb. 10, 1914 [this and the following per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904\u201324 (no. 3768, as Les nymph\u00e9as, paysage d\u2019eau, s\u00e9rie de 1906), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 21, 2013, curatorial object file]; sold to Martin A. 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