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The remaining pieces in "Other Criteria" are on artists or artworks—among them Picasso, Rodin, Jasper Johns, Monet's water-lily paintings.
The Man Who Taught Us to See Eric Gibson 2011
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Beyond The large guest tents at Xaranna are furnished in green and white, with delta-inspired touches like a water-lily lampshade.
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There he painted his glorious last project, the series of water-lily paintings known as the Nympheas, which many critics believe to be his finest work.
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There he painted his glorious last project, the series of water-lily paintings known as the Nympheas, which many critics believe to be his finest work.
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For now, she floated like a bright water-lily flower in the dark swamp of men.
Men Don't Leave Me 2010
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Monet's water-lily paintings are among his most iconic, depicting a magic pond in his garden at Giverny.
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The low end of the estimate for the sale - which includes a portrait of the anarchist Angel Fernandez de Soto from Pablo Picasso's Blue Period and a water-lily painting by Claude Monet - stands at over
A Flight to Tangibles Godfrey Barker 2010
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It begins with a gorgeous grouping of easel-scale water-lily paintings, or "Nymph as," painted between 1904 and 1908.
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Then she got out a pair of dry socks for him from her handbag, and lifted him and the small creature up on to a big, round water-lily leaf.
Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009
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And from the darkness they heard a hissing, and felt the water-lily leaf swaying.
Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009
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