Claude Monet s Le Bassin aux Nymphéas Is Being Auctioned Next Week
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In 2009, Carol Vogel at
The New York Times succinctly explained the lasting appeal and aesthetic acclaim that Claude Money’s paintings of water lilies, made late in his life, have had over time. “Over the years as [the Museum of Modern Art] added others to its collection, these dreamy depictions of Monet’s Japanese-style pond and gardens in Giverny, France, have became among the most fabled images at the museum,” Vogel wrote. And Deborah Solomon situated the paintings “among art history’s greatest last acts.”