Claude Monet Painting Nympheas 1918 in Elementary Series' Leviathan

Summary: The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 hangs diagonally from a cheap copy of stolen art in the Elementary series episode The Leviathan Dec. 13, 2012.

Nympheas (1918 oil on canvas) by French Impressionist painter Oscar-Claude Monet (Nov 14, 1840-Dec 05, 1926); private collection: Public Domain, via WikiArt

The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 appears Dec. 13, 2012, in-between two legal acquisitions and somewhat across from stolen artwork in the Leviathan episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) series Elementary.

Director Peter Werner and writers Corinne Brinkerhoff, Robert Doherty and Craig Sweeny back the Monet into a corner between an original Hopper and an original Signac. The cheap $40 lithographed copy that confronts the celebrated trio and the Cézanne on the other side of the entry confuses Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller). Sherlock departs with a masterpiece, diverted decades ago from the Aster Museum of Modern Art, after discerning Vincent van Gogh's Pietà ("Sorrow") under the decoy lithograph.

The Aster Museum of Modern Art and the Kent Philanthropic Foundation in New York City exist only in the film script for Elementary series episode 10.

Museums in Amsterdam or Vatican City, New Haven, Paris and Saint Petersburg respectively feature the Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Paul Signac and Paul Cézanne paintings.

The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 gets the title Nympheas at Giverny, 1918, and graces the walls of an unidentified private collection at an unspecified location. The Bridgeman Art Library has photographic rights to an image of the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 on the Public Broadcasting Service's PBS Learning Media site. The Bridgeman Art Library and the Elementary episode The Leviathan images indicate colors dissimilar, and content similar, to some widely imaged paintings in the 250-painting series.

Nympheas 1908, in a private collection in German-speaking, northeast Switzerland at St. Gallen, joins the Claude Monet Nympheas 1918 in jumbling gray, green and purple impressions.

The Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 keeps water black, gray and green, water lily blossoms white and yellow and water lily pads gray, green and purple.

Nympheas 1908 looks like the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 in locating more water lily pads in denser clusters to the right and to the top. The 90- by 92-centimeter (35.43- by 36.22-inch) St. Gallen oil on canvas mingles gray, green, purple water, gray, green, white pads and red, white, yellow blossoms. The Toledo Museum of Art in the Old West End of Toledo, Ohio, netted the 200- by 213-centimeter (78.74- by 85.86-inch) Nympheas 1922 (Water Lilies 1922).

Toledo's oil on canvas offers black-gray-green-purple water, gray-green pads and red-white-yellow blossoms occurring more like St. Gallen's Nympheas 1908 than the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918.

Claude Monet (Nov. 14, 1840-Dec. 5, 1926) practiced Impressionism in perceiving nature and purchased property in northern France at Giverny, where he preferred to paint water-scapes.

Egyptian and South American cultivars and local water lilies in the Nymphaea genus qualified as quintessential features in Monet's water gardens and, after 1899, painted garden-scapes. Research released by the University of Ilorin Chemistry Department in Nigeria in 2011 reveals that Nymphaeas remove heavy metals such as cadmium, iron, lead and zinc. Garden experts Peter Himmelhuber and Greg and Sue Speichert suggest that water lilies sustain such beneficial animals as clams, damselflies, dragonflies, fish, frogs, mussels and turtles.

Perhaps the Claude Monet painting Nympheas 1918 turns up to tell Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) to trust transient impressions as Sherlock thrusts her deeper into detection.

Complexities of solving the cracking of the seemingly uncrackable, sophisticated Leviathan bank vault draw Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) deeper into Sherlock Holmes's (Jonny Lee Miller) deductive world as she expands her sober companionship with him to detective work: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 12, 2012

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

French Impressionist painter founder Oscar-Claude Monet's Nympheas (1918 oil on canvas) fictitiously hangs in retired art thief Le Chevalier's philanthropic foundation in Elementary tv series' Leviathan (season 1 episode 10); in real life, Monet's painting of water lilies belongs to a private collector: Public Domain, via WikiArt @ https://www.wikiart.org/en/claude-monet/water-lilies-1917-8

Complexities of solving the cracking of the seemingly uncrackable, sophisticated Leviathan bank vault draw Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) deeper into Sherlock Holmes's (Jonny Lee Miller) deductive world as she expands her sober companionship with him to detective work: Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Dec. 12, 2012, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/202729753185477/

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Himmelhuber, Peter. 2009. Water Gardens & Natural Pools: Design & Construction. Atglen PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd.

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Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2013/01/paul-cezanne-still-life-painting-fruit.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 28 December 2012. “Paul Signac Painting Women at the Well in Elementary Series' Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2012/12/paul-signac-painting-women-at-well-in.html

Marriner, Derdriu. 21 December 2012. “The Van Gogh Pietà Painting in Elementary Series Episode The Leviathan.” Earth and Space News. Friday.
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