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Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted as Monet suffered from cataracts. In 1923, Monet had a lens removed from his right eye, correcting this but also allowing him to see ultraviolet light (which the lens usually blocks), and he began painting the water lilies in a more blue shade.
   The paintings are on display at museums all over the world, including the Musée Marmottan-Monet in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Portland Art Museum. During the 1920s, the state of France built a pair of oval rooms at the Musée de l'Orangerie as a permanent home for eight water lily murals by Monet. The exhibit opened to the public on May 16, 1927, a few months after Monet's death. Sixty water lily paintings from around the world were assembled for a special exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie in 1999.
   On June 19, 2007, one of Monet's water lily paintings sold for 18.5 million pounds at a Sotheby's auction in London.
   Monet's career long serial motif of producing and exhibiting a series of paintings related by subject and perspective began in 1889, with at least ten paintings done at the Valley of the Creuse, which were shown at the Galerie Georges Petit. Among his other famous series are his Haystacks.

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Image:Claude Monet 038.jpg|Water Lilies, Musée de l'Orangerie, 1920-1926 Image:Claude Monet 044.jpg|Sea-Roses (Yellow Nirwana), National Gallery London, 1920 Image:Claude Monet, Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow.JPG|Water-Lily Pond and Weeping Willow, (1916-19) Image:Claude Monet Nympheas Marmottan.jpg|Nympheas, Musée Marmottan Monet, 1916 Image:Monet Water Lilies 1916.jpg|Water Lilies, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1916 Image:Claude Monet Water Lilies Toledo.jpg|Water-Lilies, 1914-1917, Toledo Museum of Art Image:Claude Monet Water Lilies 1908.jpg|Water-Lilies, 1908, Dallas Museum of Arts Image:Claude Monet 045.jpg|Water Lily Pond, 1908 Image:Claude Monet - Water Lilies.JPG|Water Lilies, 1907 Image:Claude Monet - Water-Lilies (Bridgestone Museum).jpg|Water Lilies, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, 1907 Image:Claude Monet - Water Lilies - 1906, Ryerson.jpg|Water Lilies, Art Institute of Chicago, 1906 Image:Monet - Nenúfares.jpg|Water Lilies, 1904 Image:Monet2.jpg|Closeup of Water lily pond, one of 18 views of the pond, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1899 Image:Claude Monet - Waterlilies (Rome).jpg|Water lilies, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1897-1899 Further Information

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