It was a night to remember — though if you blinked, you missed it. It took just eight minutes for an iconic Claude Monet painting to sail past the never-before-seen $100 million mark for an ...

Berthe Morisot's 1880 oil-on-canvas painting "Winter" is among the highlights of “The Impressionist Revolution from Monet to Matisse,” which continues through Nov. 3 at the Dallas Museum of Art. Chad ...

Fernand “Gaston” Longchamp lived for 40 years at home in Upper Bucks County, painting masterpieces in obscurity. In the author's opinion, he ranks among the greats in county history.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Japanese art, Impressionism, and other European art styles were heavily linked. Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, created to depict “The Floating World of Edo” (modern-day ...

It’s a classic supply-and-demand challenge: Sourcing Impressionist masterpieces for auctions has become an increasingly difficult for executives in the past two decades, as the vast majority of works ...

While “Impressionism” in Western art typically calls to mind a handful of the period’s world-famous oil paintings—say, Monet’s deliciousplein airlandscapes at Giverny or Seurat’s pointillist ...

JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...

The birth of impressionism now has an exact date and time: it was invented at 7.35am on 13 November 1872, according to an astrophysicist who has calculated exactly when Claude Monet painted Impression ...

Here are nine shows not to miss around France, beyond the Musée d’Orsay’s blockbuster “Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism,” which we’ve covered separately and highly recommend. The unofficial prequel ...

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