A Water Lilies painting in the collection of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via ...

Monet’s wisteria paintings were supposed to crown a huge, continuous installation of water lily paintings. But when they were donated to the French state in 1927, they weren’t displayed as ...

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, though pieces from Monet’s water lily collection now sell for ...

View full size Marvin Fong l The Plain Dealer Dean Yoder of the Cleveland Museum of Art on Friday removes dust from a water lilies painting done by Claude Monet. The painting will be sent out to ...

In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, dusts and inspects Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.

one of the iconic water lily paintings by club monet is here at the speed art museum for just a few months. we have the curator erica here looking at this here in person.

The water lilies painting was last auctioned publicly for $20.4 million in 2015, when it was part of Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale.

Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond, 1905.In earlier works, Monet painted the footbridge in a crisp, distinct arc. Here, its faint, shadowy curves blend into greenery of the natural surroundings.