Water Lilies with a Reflected Cloud

The artwork

In this painting the sky is there, but it lies inside the water: the great white cloud in the middle is its reflection on Monet's water lily pond at Giverny. You receive it printed on handmade Amalfi paper, in a handmade frame.

• A white cloud among dark reflections, with pink and white water lilies in the foreground.
• The vertical format suits a narrow wall, beside a window or a door.
• A gift for anyone who loves gardens and water.

Monet had a pond in the garden of his house at Giverny, in Normandy, and in the last twenty years of his life he painted it on some 250 canvases. Between 1902 and 1908 he removed everything around it from his paintings: the banks, the horizon, the Japanese bridge, the trees. All that remained was the surface of the water, with its light and reflections.

So the sky enters the picture only as a reflection, and it is up to the viewer to work out where the water ends and the sky begins. Monet signed and dated the canvas at lower right, in 1907.

The painting once belonged to Sam Spiegel, the Hollywood producer of films such as Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai. After his death his collection went to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where the original hangs today.

Beside a window or in a corridor it brings a piece of sky into your home. It is a gift for anyone who loves cinema, or who has a garden with water.

Monet painted this subject several times, in different light and seasons: if you prefer another version, write to us and we will prepare it for you.

Unique quality material

Print on handmade Amalfi paper
Sheet size: 29 x 42 cm (11.4 x 16.5 in)
With frame: 31 x 44 cm (12.2 x 17.3 in)
Material: artwork printed on very fine handmade Amalfi paper with deckled edges
Frame: dark brown with gold fillet, handmade, with glass