Water Lilies. Monet.
Hazan / Orangerie Museum| N° d'inventaire | 31602 |
| Format | 22 x 31.2 |
| Détails | 208 p., publisher's hardcover |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782754117173 |
A new edition of this exceptional and previously unpublished work on Claude Monet's Water Lilies, co-published with the Musée de l'Orangerie.
A monumental and testamentary work, between decor and installation, impressionism and ornamental abstraction, both an intimate accomplishment and a national monument, Claude Monet's Water Lilies form a world-work.
It conceals many ambivalences due to a complex history. Monet, founder of Impressionism, was, from the beginning, committed to representing as closely as possible the trembling of a landscape, its vitality and its mobility, to capturing its temporality and the effect produced on the act of looking, implementing strategies that were increasingly sophisticated and more conceptual.
This stubborn and permanent quest to capture time through the means of painting gradually leads him towards increasingly radical formal solutions. The "grandes décorations" of the Orangerie, the fruit of a genesis of the painter's last thirty years, form the culmination of his pictorial and aesthetic research.
This exceptional and unique work on Claude Monet's Water Lilies, in partnership with the Musée de l'Orangerie, which holds the largest collection of Monet's Water Lilies, offers the (re)discovery of the entire cycle of water lilies in a homothetic manner, accompanied by a photo booklet on Monet at Giverny.
A new edition of this exceptional and previously unpublished work on Claude Monet's Water Lilies, co-published with the Musée de l'Orangerie.
A monumental and testamentary work, between decor and installation, impressionism and ornamental abstraction, both an intimate accomplishment and a national monument, Claude Monet's Water Lilies form a world-work.
It conceals many ambivalences due to a complex history. Monet, founder of Impressionism, was, from the beginning, committed to representing as closely as possible the trembling of a landscape, its vitality and its mobility, to capturing its temporality and the effect produced on the act of looking, implementing strategies that were increasingly sophisticated and more conceptual.
This stubborn and permanent quest to capture time through the means of painting gradually leads him towards increasingly radical formal solutions. The "grandes décorations" of the Orangerie, the fruit of a genesis of the painter's last thirty years, form the culmination of his pictorial and aesthetic research.
This exceptional and unique work on Claude Monet's Water Lilies, in partnership with the Musée de l'Orangerie, which holds the largest collection of Monet's Water Lilies, offers the (re)discovery of the entire cycle of water lilies in a homothetic manner, accompanied by a photo booklet on Monet at Giverny.