Art World Art Bites: Monet Had an Appetite for Destruction (of His Own Paintings) The Impressionist may have wrecked up to 500 "unsatisfactory" canvases. Claude Monet, Nympheas: Sun Effects (1897).

Art World Art Bites: How Women Shaped Monet’s Artistic Journey The women in Monet's life provided essential inspiration, creative collaboration, and practical support.

Before he emerged as an Impressionist painter, Monet was “O. Monet” a local caricaturist in the town of Le Havre in the Normandy region of northern France. He created witty drawings of locals ...

In 1912, Monet’s exalted eyes came under threat when he began developing cataracts; a medical consultation found that the lenses of his eyes were clouding, blocking the light as it passed through.

Monet spent his final decades in Giverny, about 50 miles northwest of Paris, until his death in 1926. Mitchell, who was born one year before Monet died, lived in Vétheuil between 1968 and 1992.

Everyone loves Monet. That’s why less than a decade after presenting the large-scale exhibit “Monet to Matisse” the Cleveland Museum of Art has put a renewed focus Claude Monet.

The Cleveland Museum of Art sold Claude Monet's "Wheat Field,'' 1881, in 2012 for $12.1 million to raise money to buy other artworks for its permanent collection.

The Portland Art Museum’s freshest exhibits showcase pieces from some of the biggest names in art, like Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso. “Monet to Matisse: French Moderns” and “Pissarro to ...

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 ...

Claude Monet, Waterlilies (1914–15) before restoration. Photo courtesy of the Portland Art Museum. Ameringer first encountered the monumental, ca. 1914–15 painting when she joined PAM in 2022.

After an 18-month hiatus, a restored “Waterlilies” by impressionist painter Claude Monet is back on display through August at the Portland Art Museum, its home since the museum acquired the ...