Water-Lilies (Tate)

French artist Claude Monet painted this Water-Lilies around 1916 at his garden in Giverny. The nearly square canvas shows his lily pond without horizon or sky, immersing viewers in reflections of water, clouds, and floating blossoms.

Monet spent his final decades obsessively painting this single subject. Each canvas captures different light and weather conditions. The blues and greens dissolve into near-abstraction. These late works influenced Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, who saw Monet as a predecessor. It hangs at Tate Modern.