With its jewel-toned palette and expressive brushwork, “Reflections” deepens the narrative of Monet’s artistic career.

It’s also the only water lily painting Monet was photographed working on — sitting under a parasol in his gardens at Giverny, a partly finished canvas in ... over the pond and up into it.

The Water Lilies series is usually divided into two compositional groups: one that depicts the pond ... canvas. Before the Impressionist era, painters mostly used blue, green, and yellow to paint ...