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Waterlilies: Green Reflections
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On the water's surface, borne by the powerful palettes of their leaves, the motionless water lilies await the fulfillment of destinies, no beginning, no end: we have but to gather the vision in its moment. . . .G. Clemenceau1(p356)
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Claude Monet (1840-1926). Waterlilies: Green Reflections. Detail of left side, room 1, east wall, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France. Copyright Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource NY.
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CLAUDE MONET'S (1840-1926) final masterpiece, Le cycle des Nymphéas, was a gift to the French nation to celebrate France's victory in the First World War. Housed at the Musée national de l'Organgerie des Tuileries in Paris, there are a series of 22 water landscapes in 2 adjacent rooms. The paintings of water lilies, weeping willows, and the reflections of light onto the surface of the water are a final and permanent record of 25 years of Monet's observations and reflections in his water lily garden . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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