That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, though pieces from Monet’s water lily collection now sell for ...

Water from a hailstorm leaked into the Musée du Louvre on Saturday (3 May), almost dripping on Cimabue’s Maestà, arguably the greatest early Western European painting. Dating from 1280-85, it ...