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Water lilies in pink

Claude Monet • Painting, 1898, 81×100 cm
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About the artwork
Art form: Painting
Subject and objects: Landscape
Style of art: Impressionism
Technique: Oil
Materials: Canvas
Date of creation: 1898
Size: 81×100 cm
Artwork in selections: 19 selections

Description of the artwork «Water lilies in pink»

The picture "Water lilies"impressionist Claude Monet is considered one of the masterpieces of the fire painting. As each mystical painting,"Water lilies"it has its own legend. Settling in Giverny in Upper Normandy, where Monet had a house with a garden, the artist was fascinated with flowers: he not only cultivated, but also painted them. Later, when water from the river, equipped with garden pond, where he began to grow lilies – Monet painted a series of paintings (museums of the world holds about 80 paintings on this subject), United by their common name. The completion of one of the Monet paintings I decided to celebrate with a party and invited his friends. Tipsy guests inadvertently staged in the artist's Studio fire, causing the broke and the painting itself, which immediately filled with wine. Subsequently, Water lilies hanging in one of the cabarets in Montmartre, the home of philanthropist Oscar Schmitz in new York's Museum of modern art, and started a fire. Twice the hero of the hour was rescued, but the third time she was badly charred. It happened half a century ago, and since then scientists have puzzled over how to restore the masterpiece. They say, for it will take NASA experts, possessing space technologies.

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