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Water Lilies - MONET, Claude - WGA
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Water Lilies

MONET, Claude · 1920 →

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Oil on canvas, 200 x 425 cm
TYPE
Landscape
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This is one of the three large water lily paintings by Monet housed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It shows a pond covered with water lilies with reflections of clouds overhead.

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@online{wga-r2809f49146a4ec,
  author       = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
  title        = {Water Lilies by MONET, Claude},
  organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
  date         = {2026-09-13},
  url          = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/monet-claude-r4339ec6b2f1eab/water-lilies-r2809f49146a4ec},
  urldate      = {2026-09-13},
  langid       = {english}
}

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