Water Lilies (Agapanthus), c. 1915–26
Claude Monet
oil on canvas · Framed: 204.9 x 430.3 x 6 cm (80 11/16 x 169 7/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 201.3 x
Monet's pond dissolved into floating colour, sky and water become one.
In his last decades Monet painted the lily pond in his Giverny garden again and again, chasing shifting light on water. Here sky, reflection and floating blooms merge into a shimmering field with no horizon — pure immersive colour, ideal glowing across a Frame TV.
What you're looking at
There is no bank, no horizon and no sky except as reflection — Monet points the canvas straight down at the water, so the picture has no up. This panel is one of three that were painted as a single continuous scene of the Giverny pond and later separated; the other two are in St Louis and Kansas City. He worked on it into his eighties while cataracts were changing what he could see.
On a Frame TV
About 2.15:1 — wider than a Frame TV, which is rare here. The clean 3840 x 2160 crop trims the ends and loses nothing, because the composition has no centre to protect. Large, soft and immersive: it is one of the few works in the collection that genuinely improves for filling a whole screen.
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