Hotspur🏳️🌈🇺🇦"Water Lilies," Claude Monet, c. 1915.
Y'all know Monet. His water lily paintings occupied the last few decades of his life, all done in the garden of his home in Giverny. He was depressed after the deaths of his wife and son, but also was beginning to suffer from vision problems due to cataracts.
When he finally underwent cataract surgery in 1923, he destroyed some of his earlier work or retouched it; I have no idea if that's the case here. Still, it's a lovely image...the water lilies on the water's surface juxtaposed against the reflection of a willow tree. It's a gorgeous image that actually challenged some notions at the time; the idea of including the tree's reflection, but not the tree itself, was a bit daring.
Happy Flower Friday!
From the Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
