Sku: YY1015
Artist: Claude Monet
Title: Water Lillies (Nympheas)
Year: 1978
Signed: No
Medium: Offset Lithograph
Paper Size: 29 x 49 inches ( 74 x 124 cm )
Image Size: 23.5 x 47.75 inches ( 60 x 121 cm )
Edition Size: Unknown
Framed: No: Inquire with our experts for framing suggestions.
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling

Additional Details: Monet’s Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism, presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1978, was widely regarded as one of the earliest true museum blockbusters. At a time when large-scale single-artist exhibitions were rare, the Met brought together an unprecedented concentration of Monet’s Giverny-period masterpieces, many drawn from international lenders and rarely seen together. The exhibition fundamentally reshaped public and scholarly understanding of Monet’s later work, presenting it not as a coda to Impressionism but as a bold, forward-looking body of work that anticipated modern abstraction. Its scale, ambition, and overwhelming public response marked a turning point in museum exhibition history and helped establish the model for the blockbuster art exhibitions that followed in subsequent decades.