94 per cent sold by lot, 97 per cent sold by value and 43 per cent of lots sold above the high estimate across both evening sales, which were led by René Magritte’s La reconnaissance infinie at £10.3 ...

They partially embraced it but also valued the pre-modern past that the new age ... Impressionism Impressionism (with much post-Impressionism) was almost the last flowering of the traditional ethos ...

After the age of Impressionism, which was filled with soft brushstrokes, beautiful sceneries, and the sunrise and gardens of ...

The Musée d’Orsay, which boasts the largest collection of Impressionist art in the world, has only two of her paintings, ...

Inventing Impressionism ... an impression to be puerile subjectivity unworthy of art. But, in another gesture of brazen modernity, the Impressionists turned the insult into a badge of honor ...

Although France lurched violently into the modern era, the same years also saw rapid economic ... with one advancement in particular playing a crucial part in the development of Impressionist art, ...