ARTGEN / Alamy Stock Photo Now, in his garden at Giverny in 1905, the artist was 64, and his Water Lilies were like nothing that had existed in painting before: nature rendered in the cropped ...

Nature has always been a muse. Be it for the singers and poets who compared their lover to a ‘sunny day’ to artists and ...

It’s also the only water lily painting Monet was photographed working on — sitting under a parasol in his gardens at Giverny, ...

Towering in scale and tumultuous in texture, the painting marks a striking contrast to the more familiar and serene “Water Lilies” (1907) that has long anchored the room. With its jewel-toned ...