On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

Geek Brush Studio announced a solo exhibition featuring the work of Sue Craig, one of Chelsea’s most prolific artists. The ...

The field of Arts has seen many different ages, phases, and eras. Be it emotional portraits, paintings, and sculptures of mythological figures, or the trend of graffiti on walls that became a form of ...

France has acquired a stunning Impressionist masterpiece for its national collection of art treasures, with a donation from luxury goods giant LVMH paying nearly $47 million for "Boating Party" by ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a new strategy that uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) to acquire both the surface and underlying details of impressionist style oil paintings. This information can be ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) this fall will be a place to experience two major exhibits of Impressionist and 19th-Century art. The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas ...

The 50 or so paintings on view in the exhibition "Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism" at the Akron Art Museum trace some of the roots and several American branches of the beloved seminal ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...