A rare painting by French impressionist Claude Monet is going up for auction next month after Christie’s auction house helped the owners reach a settlement with the heirs of its former owner, a ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - (This Oct. 9 story corrects a word in the quote to 'meaning,' not 'feeling,' in paragraph 4) In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art ...

Claude Monet made water lilies a horticultural star. You’ve surely seen his famous Impressionist paintings of the flowering plants drifting in still waters, with their soothing palette of blues, ...

These days, the worst threat that Claude Monet’s canvases are liable to face is being targeted by climate activists with mashed potatoes or soup, as well as burning in the occasional house fire, but ...

The art market was the scene of an important occurrence in 2022 – but only to those who know how to look. In all quietness, the long-standing leading performer of the secondary market was vanquished ...

In the late 19th century, Claude Monet created an astonishing series of haystack paintings, which are now among the Impressionist artist’s most recognizable works. Later this month, one of those ...

Monet’s “Impression, Sunrise,” one of the most famous paintings ever created, will soon be at the National Gallery. A previous version of this article and its headline incorrectly said Monet's ...

May 17 (UPI) --A Claude Monet painting of the Grand Canal in Italy sold at auction Tuesday for $56.6 million, the highest one of his Venice paintings has fetched, Sotheby's in New York announced. The ...

Born in Paris, Claude Monet became a key figure and catalyst of the world-famous art movement Impressionism. But his fame arrived unexpectedly. In 1874, art critic Louis Leroy ridiculed Monet's ...