Léon Monet was born in 1836, four years before his younger, more famous brother Claude, and he took a very different path in life. After studying to become a chemist, he moved to Rouen where he ...

The gardens at Giverny are the stuff of art-history legend. But preserving them is a Sisyphean battle against time, weather ...

This book, subtitled Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies, deserves a place of pride beside Margaret MacMillan ’s Paris 1919 for its engrossing depiction of the Great War era.

A water lily painting by Claude Monet sold for more than $80 million US on Tuesday, breaking the previous auction record for the French impressionist artist, Christie's said.

Claude Monet by his pond in Giverny in 1905. RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource NY The earlier works in the show provide a lovely primer to Monet’s practice, but the real focus here is on the late ...

Monet’s paintings always seemed to me emotional, tumultuous and sensational, and I was fascinated to discover how he worked, battling his own temperament—thrusting, volatile, voracious ...