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Claude Monet - Water Lilies 1916. Monet began work in 1883 in the small village of Giverny down stream on the
Seine from Paris. Then in 1893 he bought the land in front of his home and built a Japanese style garden in the
space. Monet used a small stream that ran through his property to build a huge pond which he filled with water
lilies and crossed with a humpbacked bridge. He lined the banks with willows and shrubbery and retired to this
watery realm isolated from the outside world to create his final series, "The Water Lilies". - art-Monet.com