Claude Monet, popularly known as the ‘Father of Impressionist Movement’ is one of the most acclaimed artists in the history of Western art. His fresh, new approach to the paintings of his time ...

Discover facts about Claude Monet the Impressionist painter. Read a brief biography about his life story, and his paintings including the infamous 'Waterlilies'.

Eighty-four years after his death, Claude Monet, one of the world's favourite Frenchmen, may finally leave his beloved village of Giverny and return to the centre of Paris. President Nicolas ...

Claude Monet, A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur (1865). Collection of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris. His first snowscape, A Cart on the Snowy Road at Honfleur, was painted between 1865 and 1867.

Julian Barnes writes that London and Venice were ‘about the furthest’ that Claude Monet ‘took his brushes’. It’s true that Monet was no great traveller (the Impressionists, as Barnes says, were above ...

While today works by artists such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas fetch eye-popping sums at auction, reviews after their inaugural 1874 exhibition in Paris were scathing.