Claude Monet - Water Lily Pond 1917 Compact Mirror

Water Lily Pond (Le Bassin aux nymphéas), 1917-1919 - Claude Monet, oil on canvas. Claude Monet (Paris, 1840 - Giverny, 1926) was a French Impressionist painter. Between 1917 and 1919, Monet produced a group of large horizontal canvases focused closely on the pond's surface. They were substantially larger than many of his earlier water-lily paintings and formed an important step toward the immense decorative panels he was developing at the same time. The scene is built from clusters of lilies, reflected sky and traces of surrounding vegetation, with no conventional horizon. By enlarging the motif and suppressing fixed spatial markers, Monet turned a garden view into an expansive field of color and reflection.