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Claude Monet
Self-Portrait with a Beret, oil on canvas by Claude Monet, 1886; in a private collection.
Claude Monet created a series of approximately 250 oil paintings known as the Water Lilies.
He began focusing on the water lily pond in his garden at Giverny in the late 1890s and continued to paint the subject until his death in 1926. These works evolved from smaller canvases into a monumental decorative scheme, culminating in a cycle of large-scale murals installed in the Orangerie in Paris.12