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

From the late 1890s until his death in 1926, Monet produced some 250 oil paintings of water lilies at his home in Giverny, France. Next up at Sotehby’s was the Modern Evening Auction ...

In Water Lilies #1, Ai probes notions of reality and artifice. Although Monet’s word-famous painting represents the epitome of natural beauty, the pond and gardens he depicts were in fact a man-made ...