Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries
In 1920, Claude Monet’s good friend George Clemenceau suggested that Water Lilies should be exhibited permanently at the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries Garden. The official inauguration of Water Lilies, a gift from Claude Monet to the French government, took place in 1927. The Walter-Guillaume Collection was later added in 1965. L’Orangerie currently houses works by Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Rousseau, André Derain, Chaïm Soutine, Marie Laurencin, Maurice Utrillo, Paul Gauguin, Alfred Sisley and Kees van Dongen.
