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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Monet was then purchased at auction by a Nazi art dealer and disappeared in 1941. More than 70 years later, the painting resurfaced at a 2016 impressionism exhibition in France.

A port, a garden, a mountain, a village, an island... These five places in France immortalised by the Impressionist and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...