SAINT LOUIS, MO.- For the first time in over 30 years, The Saint Louis Art Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and The Cleveland Museum of Art have collaborated to reunite the three panels of Agapanthus as the artist himself intended. The Agapanthus triptych was inspired by Monet’s pond in his famed garden at Giverny, just west of Paris. Monet himself gave the title Agapanthus to the 42 foot triptych after the plant (also known as “African lily” or “Lily of the Nile”). His large-scale water-lily compositions represent the culminating achievement of his career, and were described by the artist as his Grand Decorations. Monet began work on these three massive canvases, each measuring approximately 7 feet by 14 feet, in about 1915, and continued to rework and obsessively change the composition of the triptych until his death more than 10 years later. After Monet’s death, the three panels of Agapanthus remained in Monet’s studio