All the talks take place on a Wednesday starting at 2.15pm in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW. 

Presentations will be held in the First Floor Lecture Theatre.

Please note that the Theatre will available 15 mins before the talk starts

The history of the Water Lily canvases began in 1914, when French newspapers began reporting that Monet, then 73, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision was threatened by cataracts. And yet despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, as well as the onset of WW1, Monet began painting again, this time on a more ambitious scale than ever before. The result was the magnificent canvases that represent his last and most remarkable artistic statement.