Louis Gillet labeled some paintings of these objects “upside-down” according to Ross King’s book Mad Enchantment, which describes an artist’s visit to the 1889 Exposition Universelle. The last volume of a catalog raisonné by Daniel Wildenstein is dominated by paintings of these objects, including Green Reflections. In a letter to Gustave Geffroy, an artist described paintings of these objects creating an “illusion of an endless whole” after a successful exhibit at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. The World War I armistice led Georges Clemenceau to manage a decade-long commission for paintings of these objects, which was delayed by the artist’s cataract surgeries. Two oval rooms house paintings of these objects at the Musée de l’Orangerie (“mew-zay duh lo-ronzh-REE”). For 10 points, a Japanese bridge at Giverny is featured in Claude Monet’s paintings of what aquatic plants? ■END■
ANSWER: water lilies [or water lily; or nymphéas; or lily pads; prompt on flowers, aquatic plants, blooms, or equivalents of any until “plants” is read; reject “lilies”]
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