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Jean-Léon Gérôme: orientalist fantasy among the impressionists
French art in the 19th century is not only about impressionists as Jean-Léon Gérôme's fruity fantasies of 'the east' reveal in an exhibition at London's Royal AcademyJean-Léon Gérôme's painting The...
View ArticleFrom Paris: A Taste for Impressionism – in pictures
A new exhibition shows that impressionists remain so popular not because people want 'safe' art – but because Monet, Renoir, Manet and their contemporaries captured the feel of modernity in...
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From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark – review
Royal Academy, LondonOnce upon a time in America, the art collector was regarded as a paragon whose virtue increased with every purchase. The ownership of art implied taste, which implied humanity in...
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Dutch art theft: a pick'n'mix of paintings reduced to criminal collateral
A beguiling Freud, a dazzling Matisse, a modest De Haan: will these stolen paintings see the light again?Lucian Freud's Woman with Eyes Closed is a beguiling picture of a sleeper whose warm...
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Rotterdam art thieves take valuable paintings in dawn heist
Picasso, Gauguin, Matisse, Freud and Monet are among the artists whose works were stolen from Dutch galleryPaintings by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Meyer de Haan, Lucian Freud and two by Monet were...
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Fall by the wayside: the US autumn is a greater spectacle
Only Europe's autumn, as captured by artists, can be described as a dying fall. Riotous colours make the US landscape fiery at this time of yearWhen the painter Thomas Cole headed out of New York into...
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A Monet for £27m? The real price of the art boom is its sleaziness
As a Christie's sale is criticised for not offering enough 'trophy property', it's clear to see what the art world has become"The billion-dollar art sale" – it sounds like business as usual. As New...
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Garden painted by Monet could be sold to developers, says owner
Monet painted the olive trees and described the gardens at Villa Mariani in Bordighera, Italy, as 'pure magic'A famous villa and its garden in Liguria, Italy, where visitors can admire olive trees...
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Show me the Manet – the week in art
The Royal Academy celebrates the great French painter, Formica the wonder surface hits 100, and Tate Britain finds a new side to LS Lowry – all in your weekly art dispatchExhibition of the weekManet:...
View ArticlePeter Duggan's Artoons: How Manet got his Monet's worth
How a chance encounter with the outdoorsy Monet may have provoked Édouard Manet into creating his famous painting The Luncheon On the Grass
View ArticleThe 10 best sea pictures
From Da Vinci's imagined Italian coastline to Turner's abstractions – Observer art critic Laura Cumming chooses her favourite seascapesLaura Cumming
View ArticleCopies of famous art – in pictures
Copyist Susie Ray has been painstakingly recreating famous paintings for millionaires and art collectors for 25 yearsSarah Gilbert
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Three Romanians admit stealing paintings from Dutch museum
Works by Picasso, Monet and Matisse among those stolen from Rotterdam's Kunsthal Museum in October 2012 raidThree Romanians have pleaded guilty to stealing seven paintings, including works by Picasso,...
View ArticleThe Brig by Gustave Le Gray - a picture from the past
An 1856 seascape from one of the most important figures in the history of photographyRanjit Dhaliwal
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From the Observer archive, 19 November 1989: Lovely food – but the French...
The great food writer Jane Grigson decides a book of Monet's family recipes is a missed opportunityAbout 14 years ago I first read about the Monet family's recipe books in Claire Joyes' Monet at...
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Alain de Botton's guide to art as therapy
Can visual art offer solace, hope and reassurance as music can? The writer chooses the works that make him feel less aloneIt comes naturally to most of us to think of music as therapeutic. Almost all...
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Monet, cabaret and absinthe: Paris yearns for 'la belle époque'
French national confidence is in sharp decline – but Paris 1900, an exhibition at the Petit Palais devoted to the capital's golden age, might reclaim some pride• See our gallery of exhibits from Paris...
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Impressionist masterpieces from private collections go on display
Marmottan Monet museum in Paris to showcase rarely shown Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cézanne and Degas worksA treat for impressionist fans has just opened at a Paris museum where 80 paintings and...
View ArticleTurner, Monet, Twombly at Tate Liverpool audio art tour
Tate Liverpool's Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings explores the similarities between these artists in style, subject and artistic motivation during the last 2030 years of their lives. Jonathan...
View ArticleThis week's new exhibitions in pictures
From Turner Monet Twombly in Liverpool to Edvard Munch in London, Skye Sherwin and Robert Clark find out what's happening in art around the country
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