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.

Art & Exhibitions Monet’s Obsessive Paintings of the Thames Reunited in London for the First Time in 120 Years. A once-in-a-lifetime exhibition is on view now at the Courtauld in London.

Serres explained: “Monet uses purple in almost all of the London paintings, sometimes dark and sometimes pale. His rendering of light can be best appreciated when you see the pictures side by ...

Auction house Christies sold Grainstack (Sunset) for $81,447,500 in 2016 to an anonymous buyer, while another in the series painted by Monet reached $110,747,000 in 2019 at Sotherby’s to become ...

Monet's disassembly of soot-laced fog into a diaphanous fabric (replete with "all sorts of colours", as the artist himself explained; "there are black, brown, yellow, green, purple fogs") would ...

Claude Monet, the founder of Impressionism, revolutionized 19th-century art with his bold use of pure, vibrant colors and his focus on capturing light and scenes of modern life.

Claude Monet, the brilliant artist who was a true nature lover, is a name that everyone in and out of the art circles knows of. From his garden in Giverny in real life that was bustling with ...

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.

Monet was 60 in 1900, and the London series ushers into his painting characteristics of late style — extravagant yet authoritative, emotional, meditative, musing on the abstract character of ...