Sentences with phrase «water lily painting»

Christie's has had tough time with a number of its recent Impressionist and Modern sales but this May, the auction house just announced, it will be selling four works (three Renoirs and a Monet water lily painting) with a combined high estimate of $ 60m.

In 1958, when a fire destroyed this and another water lily painting, the public's widespread expression of loss led to the acquisition of the works currently in the collection.

Other highlights in Sotheby's sale include a huge and vibrantly coloured abstract by Gerhard Richter, Absraktes Bild, 1992, with an estimate of $ 30m; a Monet water lily painting, Nympheas, with an estimate of $ 30m - $ 45m; and Roy Lichtenstein's The Ring (Engagement) 1962 with an estimate of $ 50m.

The museum's collection includes major works by artists including Claude Monet (several works including an enormous water lily painting), Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Jacques Lipchitz and the Swiss Alberto Giacometti.

A Monet water lilies painting, which hung in the sweeping stairwell at Hudson Pines, could fetch $ 70 million.

On April 15, 1958, a fire on the second floor destroyed an 18 foot long Monet Water Lilies painting (the current Monet water lilies was acquired shortly after the fire as a replacement).

In an art - historical nod, the park has installed a «Monet Bridge» over a pond, inspired by the artist's water lily paintings.

Located on the island of Naoshima is also the the Chichu Art Museum which boasts a number of site - specific installations by artists such as James Turrell, Walter De Maria, as well as a garden modeled from Claude Monet's garden in alongside five of his Water Lilies paintings.

Turner Monet Twombly - Tate Liverpool 22 June - 28 October 2012 # 13.50 / # 10.00 Update: The exhibition includes five important Monet water lily paintings, two of which have...

Part of a network of art sites on island developed by Japanese businessman and art collector Soichiro Fukutake, the museum features polished concrete chambers housing the work of three artists: a selection of Claude Monet's water lily paintings (the skylight and glistening mosaic floor creates a shrine - like experience); an installation by Walter de Maria that consists of a central, polished granite sphere sitting on a staircase with surrounding gilded wall sculptures; and three James Turrell light works.

An exhibition of Monet, Turner and Twombly at Tate Liverpool will include two water lilies paintings never seen in the UK

Just to make an example, the Water Lilies painting by Claude Monet alone is worth the visit to the museum.

It was Monet, however, who adhered most closely to the practice of plein - air methods, continuing to refine his painterly techniques (even when plagued with failing eyesight) in his monumental series of water lily paintings completed in his garden at Giverny, until in death in 1926.

Monet, in particular, held great appeal for these artists who in 1953 had the chance to view his late water lily paintings at the newly reopened Musée de l'Orangerie.

Famous late works, such as Claude Monet's late water lily paintings or Willem de Kooning's canvases of the 1980s are just as much central to this concept as are surprising «late works» such as Francis Picabia's radically reduced «Dot Paintings», created in 1949, or the «Sky and Cloud Paintings» by Georgia O'Keeffe, which were painted in the 1960s, when the artist was nearly eighty, and depict what was for her the new experience of flying.

There is also a second museum, featuring Claude Monet's water lily paintings; a series of striking art installations amid the houses of one village; outdoor art scattered along the coast; and a third museum under construction.

The Untitled, 1960 features pastel colors beneath the white that are vaguely reminiscent of the same colors Monet uses in his water lily paintings, leaving a peaceful mood.

Update: The exhibition includes five important Monet water lily paintings, two of which have never been shown before in Britain.

Near the end of his life, Monet created a series of large scale paintings in the mode of his famous Water Lilies paintings that were particularly abstract.

Not exact matches

When King Tutankhamun's tomb, dating to the 14th century B.C.E., was opened in 1922, archaeologists found the boy - king's body covered with the flowers of blue water lily, a common motif in many Egyptian tomb paintings.

One of Monet's early paintings first gave rise to the term «Impressionism,» and his later paintings of water lilies remain among his most popular and enduring works.

If you didn't know it already, this place has an absolutely exquisite collection of European paintings, including one of Monet's «Water Lilies.»

Ross King is the author of The Judgment of Paris, Brunelleschi's Dome, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven, Leonardo and the Last Supper and most recently, Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies.

Admire the pretty water lily ponds and the renowned Japanese bridge which were such an inspiration for Monet's magnificent paintings.

Hedge - fund manager Alan Howard's collection includes a $ 43 million Monet water - lily painting.

BP: To me, your new flower paintings hover between the feeling of a Japanese garden and Monet's water lilies.

With blue fields layered with levitating blocks, or intersecting beams of contrasting blues and sometimes greens or purples, these immersive paintings evoked geometric versions of Monet's «Water Lilies.»

The remaining thirty - two paintings make up the remarkable second half of the exhibition culminating in the five Grand Décorations (large scale Water Lilies) made in surprising and relative obscurity at Giverny at the end of Monet's life.

These large scale Water Lilies are painted in the thick and bold manner of the ten large scale studies I just discussed.

For an abstract painter today experiencing for the first time, Monet's large scale paintings in the room called: Studies: Water Lilies, Weeping Willows, and Irises 1914 - 1919, beginning the second half of the exhibition there can only be a profound shock of recognition.

Fifty - four paintings including three of The Garden Path at Giverny, four of The Japanese Bridge over the Lily Pond, fourteen London Views of Parliament, Charing Cross and Waterloo Bridges, twenty - four examples of an early series of small Water Lilies and nine Views of Venice comprise the first four rooms of the show.

In one painting, a willow reflected on the water stresses the lattice of drawing, and most paintings allow a stretch of water to wind vertically near the central axis, between water lilies.

These minimal compositions may look familiar today, but it helps to recall that the dawn of the 20th century was still the time when Monet obsessively rendered his water lilies and Seurat fastidiously labored over the Grand Jatte one paint dot at a time... This was a time of the industrial revolution, broad social and political changes that found their reflections in the changing pictorial and musical themes of the first decades of the 20th century.

In the light of abstraction or the all - over haze of late Claude Monet and his Water Lilies, his paintings display a steady progression to saturated canvases left unfinished at his death in 1851 — some after nearly a decade of effort.

From Matisse she turned her attention to Mondrian, whose abstractions taught her «to start with the thing itself», then to Monet's expansive water lilies, then to the Futurists («There's lots I don't like about Futurism... but it was certainly moving towards abstract painting»).

The water lilies move about from painting to painting because he moved and because he had others move the water lilies.

The three paintings were sold separately to the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum and the Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and have been reunited here to form an immersive 42ft wall of shimmering water lilies.

The larger Water Lilies are the ultimate all - over paintings.

AD Films and Nick Wallace Smith made this film available of Monet painting his Giverny water lilies in plein - air.

Robert Miller Gallery's represented artist Mark Fox spoke with the Houston Chronicle about his residency at Giverny, the estate in France where Claude Monet created his water - lily paintings, and current exhibition at Hiram Butler Gallery.

What about Monet's water lilies installation at l'Orangerie where the paintings become a 360 - degree spatial enclosure?

Thousands of tiny white LEDs may resemble a starry night as seen in a planetarium, while tubes of colored LEDs masked by a diffuser are like a Monet painting of water lilies set in motion.

Night blooming water lilies serve as both inspiration for the painting and the title of the exhibition, the new work in Nymphaea inhabit a lush and marshy world.

Shen focuses on the expressive texture of the medium by meditating on calligraphy, the body, and western painting, perhaps finding inspiration in Monet's Impressionist Water Lilies (Nympheas, 1920 - 26, Musee de l'Orangerie), surrealism, and abstract expressionism.

To call these paintings decorative would be short - sighted, for in manipulating the size, shape, and colors of the traditional military fabric — a fabric designed not to be seen — he demonstrated an almost effortless ability to summon up an entire range of art historical references, from Chinese landscapes to Monet's Water Lilies....

He relates how one prospective buyer turned down a Picasso harlequin painting that clashed with her sofa and how the Dallas Museum missed its chance to acquire one of Monet's great water lilies (Nymphéas).

Wilson's graphic fluency and absurdist sense of humor (one piece features typewriter keys floating like water lilies, another pairs two gramophone horns blasting particles at each other) recall the 1970s paintings of Philip Guston, whose figural motifs flowed with a prolificacy and naturalness verging on the speed of thought.

The High Museum has quietly added its two most important Monet paintings to «Water Lilies,» the loan show from the Museum of Modern Art.

This studio is situated on a pond filled with water lilies, and Katz recently made a series of paintings in response to both the pond and the water lilies, in homage to the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet.

In 1883, Monet settled at Giverny, where he created his famous water garden, and continued painting water lilies (see Decoration des Nympheas 1916 - 26, Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris) until he died, anticipating later 20th century styles such as Abstract Expressionism (1945 - 1960).