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Art Art history, not air pollution, explains changes in Monet’s paintings Art isn’t science. A new study clouds the facts. February 1, 2023 More than 2 years ago ...
But the central story is Monet’s best-known project, the series of paintings of the water lilies at his residence in Giverny. He started on the project about 1905.
The difficulty of extracting Hoschedé-Monet from history has been compounded by the fact that few of her 300-ish works are in public collections. In her native France, the former Musée Municipal ...
The paintings were Monet’s soothing gift to a “traumatized France,” said Pierre Georgel, museum curator. Monet and Clemenceau chose the Orangerie as the site for the gallery.
Three paintings by the French impressionist Claude Monet were destroyed in a 2022 house fire in Pentwater Township, according to documents filed in a legal dispute between the paintings’ owners ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In a move that sounds jaw-dropping at first, the Cleveland Museum of Art is offering one of its six Claude Monet paintings for sale at auction at Sotheby's in New York on Nov. 5 ...
From Claude Monet to Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Impressionism has left a legacy of legendary canvases you can see in the world's most prestigious museums. Let’s take a tour!
What’s startling about Monet’s Rouen Cathedral paintings is the density of the paint. On most of these canvases it’s like a thick encrustation of gunk.
In 1908, Claude Monet slashed his way through 15 of his own paintings, causing an artistic disaster that one paper reported was worth $100,000, or over $2 million today.
You can preview some of the paintings to be displayed at "Monet: The Late Years" in the above gallery. "Monet: The Late Years," de Young Museum, February 16 through May 27, 2019.
Helena Newman, Chairman of Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern Art, Europe. “It’s from the mid-1880s, when Monet was at Giverny,” said Newman of Sotheby’s.