For instructive, beautifully illustrated articles on the acquisition of Monet’s Waterlilies by the Museum of Modern Art and their destruction in a fire, see the following articles in Life:

“Old Master’s Modern Heirs,” Life December 2, 1957, pp. 94-99.

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“Fiery Peril in a Showcase of Modern Art,” Life April 28, 1958, 53-56.

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