In 1890, he was able to buy a house in Giverny, France.
This led to series such as Haystacks. While the beginning of his career was shaped by poverty, he started to make more money in the 1880s. In 1890, he was able to buy a house in Giverny, France. He created a water garden with a lot of water lilies there. It inspired Monet’s well-known Water Lilies series which consists of around 300 paintings. His eyesight got worse in 1908 and in 1923 he had a cataract operation. He nonetheless worked on the series. He donated a number of these works to the French government in 1926, the same year he died.