The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s ...

This marked the beginning of his most famous series of paintings—Water Lilies. Claude Monet started working on a project that would later become known as his Water Lilies series in 1899.

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 ...