Monet's Love Affair with Japanese ArtMore rewarding is to speculate about how art opened Monet to Japan. Printmaking is a more cumbersome and less forgiving process than painting, so Japanese ...

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 ...

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.

“It was very forward thinking,” Ameringer said, laughing. A detail of a flower in the painting “Waterlilies” (1914-15) by Claude Monet, at the Portland Art Museum, Aug. 1, 2024.

For “Mickalene Thomas: Avec Monet,” the American artist created works that reflect on the French painter and move Black women into the foreground.

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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.

In 1939, the art historian Lionello Venturi dismissed him as the “gravedigger of Impressionism.” Only in the postwar era did Monet begin to be rediscovered as the ur-modernist we know today.

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 ...