Manaus Vista do Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brasil

Manaus Vista do Rio Negro, Amazonas, Brasil
Manaus - AM
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Praça Tiradentes, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil

Praça Tiradentes, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil
Curitiba - PR
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Panorama de São Paulo, Brasil

Panorama de São Paulo, Brasil
São Paulo - SP
Fotografia

Panorama da Estrada da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Panorama da Estrada da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Rio de Janeiro - RJ
Foto Postal Colombo N. 60
Fotografia - Cartão Postal

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet
Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gotemburgo, Suécia
OST - 105x73 - 1907

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, País de Gales
OST - 100x81 - 1908

When this work and forty-seven other Monet paintings of waterlilies (nymphéas) were first exhibited in 1909 an enthusiastic critic proclaimed: 'Here, more than ever before, painting approaches music and poetry. There is in these paintings an inner beauty, refined and pervasive; the beauty of a play and of a concert, a beauty that is both plastic and ideal.' This is the most delicately-coloured and abstract-looking of the three Monet Nymphéas purchased by Gwendoline Davies at Paris in 1913.

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, País de Gales
OST - 81x101 - 1905

In 1890 Monet bought the house at Giverny, north-west of Paris, where he lived for the rest of his life. In 1893 he purchased a large pond nearby, which he transformed into a water garden. From 1899 he became increasingly fascinated by the pond, its footbridge and the waterlilies (nymphéas) floating on its surface. Between 1903 and 1908 Monet painted his second series of water garden paintings. This is the earliest and most descriptive of the three Waterlilies purchased by Gwendoline Davies at Paris in 1913.

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet

Ninféias (Waterlilies) - Claude Monet
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, País de Gales
OST - 81x92 - 1906

From the Japanese bridge in his water garden, Monet obtained a high viewpoint of the water and a correspondingly steep picture plane, uninterrupted by the shoreline. The reflective surface of a pond with its floating vegetation seems transformed into limitless space. In 1908 he wrote: 'These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession...yet I want to succeed in rendering what I perceive'. This is one of three Monet paintings of waterlilies (nymphas) purchased by Gwendoline Davies at Paris in 1913.

Vista Aérea de João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil

Vista Aérea de João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil
João Pessoa - PB
Foto Pintura
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Praça Raul Soares, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil

Praça Raul Soares, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Belo Horizonte - MG
Foto Postal Colombo N. 31
Fotografia - Cartão Postal