Water Lilies: Reflection of Willows was one of a set of 25 Monet paintings in a huge collection of Western art acquired by the Japanese collector KÅjirÅ Matsukata. In the leadup to World War II, he had the works stored for safekeeping in France and England. When they were finally returned to Japan in 1959 […]
SOURCE: www.smithsonianmag.com at 08:01AM on March 2, 2018