Long before Claude Monet became a master of Impressionism he was a caricaturist sketching the locals in Le Havre.

His art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, had to admit he did not like them or think he could sell them. It was the first time he ...

Monet completed the oil painting in 1890 as part of his Meules (Haystacks) series, depicting rural life near his home in the Normandy region. The sale is also the first time an Impressionist ...

Monet, who was born in Paris in 1840, was said to be inspired by the Japanese artist practice of producing several views in the art work, according to the National Gallery. He also painted the ...

A year after Monet died in 1926, 22 water lily paintings he had willed to the state were removed to Paris and displayed at the Musee de l'Orangerie. At first, "nobody came," Tucker says.

Television cameras, photographers and reporters crowded around as the new owners of the artwork laid eyes on it for the first ... and art collector who purchased the modest Monet titled “Bord ...