Portland Art Museum’s ‘Waterlilies’ restoration gives the beloved Monet painting ‘back its voice’
That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, ...
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Later in Life, Claude Monet Obsessed Over Water Lilies. His Paintings of Them Were Some of His Greatest Masterpieces
The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s ...
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Why Restore Waterlilies Now?
The artist used a larger-than-usual canvas (roughly 5 feet by 6 feet), freer brushwork, and an abstracted approach to prepare for a Grand Decoration of water lily paintings, which would later be ...
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Portland Art Museum Exhibits Restored Monet Alongside the Japanese Artists Who Inspired Him
an unnamed painting from among roughly 250 entries in Monet’s iconic Water Lilies series which has never been shown unvarnished in a major institution outside of the Monet family’s personal ...
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Ai Weiwei's largest-ever Lego artwork revealed at London’s Design Museum
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 ...