Water-Lilies  1916

In 1916 Monet had a new studio built at Giverny in order to work on huge canvases; large-scale, close-up views of the surface of his water-lily pond. In 1918, the day after the Armistice was signed, the painter promised a group of the paintings to the French nation as a 'monument to peace'. It was a war memorial, but of a personal, unprecedented kind. Monet described his ...