Now, in his garden at Giverny in 1905, the artist was 64, and his Water Lilies were like nothing that had existed in painting ...

In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, dusts and inspects Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.

The painting was part of a larger installation that Monet called his “Grandes Décorations ... Monet also created a series of wisteria paintings to be hung like a crown over the water lilies.

The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, though pieces from ...

As widely recognized as Leonardo da Vinci’s "Mona Lisa" or Edvard Munch’s "The Scream," one of Claude Monet's celebrated "Water Lilies" paintings has made its debut at the Speed Art Museum ...

An iconic water lilies painting by French artist Claude Monet has sold for 31.7 million pounds ($57.3 million) in London, the second-highest amount ever paid for his work. The dream-like ...

Now, in his garden at Giverny in 1905, the artist was 64, and his Water Lilies were like nothing that had existed in painting before: nature rendered in the cropped, smallest fragment of a ...

In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, dusts and inspects Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, though pieces from Monet’s water lily collection now sell for ...