Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road. Presentations will be held in the First Floor Lecture Theatre.
The history of the Water Lily canvases began in 1914, when French newspapers began reporting that Monet, then 73, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision was threatened by cataracts. And yet despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, as well as the onset of WW1, Monet began painting again, this time on a more ambitious scale than ever before. The result was the magnificent canvases that represent his last and most remarkable artistic statement.
