Water Lilies (Agapanthus right panel)

The painting spreads across a wide surface, designed to surround the viewer rather than present a single fixed view. Water fills the entire space, with no shoreline or sky to define where the scene begins or ends. Pale lilies drift across layers of blue, green, and violet, appearing and dissolving as light moves across the pond. Depth is created through color and reflection, not through clear outlines.

This large scale panel is part of the late water lilies works that Claude Monet created at Giverny in the final years of his life. These paintings were meant to be experienced physically, encouraging slow looking and quiet immersion. By working at this size, Monet allowed color, texture, and movement to take over, turning the surface into an environment rather than an image. The result feels calm, expansive, and deeply absorbing, like standing still within the rhythm of water and light.