About This Artwork

Claude Monet
French, 1840-1926

Water Lily Pond, 1917–22

Oil on canvas
51 1/2 x 79 1/2 in. (130.2 x 201.9 cm)
Estate stamp at lower right: Claude Monet
Gift of Mrs. Harvey Kaplan, 1982.825

Wildenstein 1889

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Possibly Kunsthalle Basel, Impressionisten, 1949, cat. 203.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Monet, March 15–May 11, 1975, cat. 121.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Claude Monet 1840-1926, July 22–November 26, 1995, cat. 148.

Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 92 (ill.).

Publication History

Denis Rouart, Jean-Dominque Rey and Robert Maillard, Monet, Nympheas ( Paris, 1972), p. 174, ill.

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet, vie et oeuvre, vol. IV (Lausanne-Paris, 1985), pp. 288, 289, no. 1889 (ill.).

Andrew Forge, Monet (Chicago, 1995), p. 109, no. 34 (ill.).

Daniel Wildenstein, Monet Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV (Cologne, 1996), p. 897, no. 1889 (ill.).

Paul Hayes Tucker, Monet in the 20th Century, exh. cat. (Boston, Museum of Fine Arts and London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1998/9), p. 218.

James A. Ganx and Richard Kendall, The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings, exh. cat. (Williamstwon, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007), p. 269, no. 273 (ill.).

The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 92, pp. 176-177 (ill.).

Ownership History

Michel Monet, Giverny [this and the following information acc. to Wildenstein 1996]; Katia Granoff, Paris. Paul Rosenberg, New York; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kaplan, Chicago on October 16, 1956 [see receipt, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1982.