This artist dug a trench into the ground to lower his painting of a man and three women in white dresses, the latter all modeled on his wife. Swirls of white and grey surround a face with closed eyes in this artist’s painting of his wife on her deathbed. This artist’s half-turned wife wears a billowing white dress and holds the title object alongside her son in a field in his Woman with a Parasol. This artist married his patron’s widow Alice Hoschedé (“ohsh-DAY”) after the death of his muse Camille Doncieux (“kah-MEE dawns-YOO”), whom he painted wearing a red kimono. Georges Clemenceau urged this artist to get surgery for his cataracts, which impacted a series that makes up two rooms of the Musée de l’Orangerie and includes this artist’s Japanese footbridge. For 10 points, while in Giverny, what artist painted his pond’s water lilies? ■END■
ANSWER: Claude Monet [or Oscar-Claude Monet]
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