Monet retreated to his oasis in Giverny, a village 50 miles outside of Paris, and continued the Sisyphean task he’d been laboring under for much the preceding two decades: painting water lilies.

Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet “Water Lilies” scene for $65.5 million on Monday, a solid start to a weeklong series of New York auctions being closely followed for fresh clues into the art ...

Having cut a few to shreds, Monet, “extremely irritable and morose,” turned them to the wall and would “go away for change and rest.” Water Lilies, 1907. “These water landscapes have b ...

It was against this backdrop that Monet created his most famous works: a series of horizonless canvases dappled with shadows, lit from above, strewn with blooming water lilies. Like so many before ...

The MFA’s newly reimagined Gallery 252, which is dedicated to Claude Monet’s work, has found its centerpiece in “Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows” (1916-1919), a powerful work ...

But a paradigm had shifted, and Monet became a magnet for his forward-looking contemporaries. Now, in his garden at Giverny ...