moma:

Claude Monet, born today in 1840, painted Water Lilies in the last decade of his life.

[Claude Monet. Water Lilies. 1914-26. Photograph by John Wronn]

When I was in New York I saw this painting – it was breathtaking. And shocked the hell out of me how BIG it was. I wandered back and forth enjoying it for a long time.