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
The art of the French avant garde in the 19th century is often underestimated as safe or bourgeois. But as a new exhibition in London underlines, Monet, Renoir, Manet and their contemporaries remain so...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleMonet water lilies painting sells for $27m at Christie's spring auction
Impressionist and modern art auction nets $286m in sales Picasso and Modigliani works also sell for millionsThe spring art auctions got off to a solid start on Tuesday as Christie's sold $286m worth...
View ArticleSwiss museum sole heir in will of art collector Cornelius Gurlitt
Several works in his collection suspected of having been looted from Jewish families during Nazi eraA Swiss museum has inherited one of the most controversial art collections in recent European...
View ArticleThe top 10 beaches in art
From Weegee's Coney Island fun-lovers and sun-seekers to Monet's women in full dress, the beach has not only inspired art but been a gauge of social changeThe top 10 unforgettable faces in artThe top...
View ArticleMaking Colour review enter a dazzling, eye-opening world
National Gallery, LondonThis scientific look at how artists risked their lives to create gorgeous colours will blow your mind and open your eyes to art The magic of Making Colour in picturesWhen we...
View ArticleClaude Monet water lilies piece sells at auction for £32m
Sale of Nympheas is the second highest price ever paid for a Monet at auction, confirming market still wants 'trophy paintings'A Claude Monet painting of water lilies sold for almost £32m at auction in...
View ArticleIs JMW Turner Britain's greatest artist?
He once divided critics, but Turner's profound influence on later artists is testimony to the immutable power of his creative visionJoseph Mallord William Turner is Britain's greatest artist.What? Who...
View ArticleThe top 10 suns in art
From Monet's mellow yellows to Olafur Eliasson's giant cosmic installation in the Tate's Turbine Hall, here are the best examples of solar flair by art's sun-worshippers The top 10 skyscrapers in art...
View ArticleAmerican Impressionism: A New Vision review Monet's fans from across the...
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, EdinburghYes, there were pale imitations, but the greatest 19th-century American artists rivalled the trailblazing FrenchClaude Monet, in Giverny, was plagued...
View ArticleThe top 10 picnics in art
From scandalous scenes in the French countryside to Rubens' plea for the pleasures of peace, here are the finest al fresco dining paintings in history The top 10 ancient Greek artworks The top 10...
View ArticleWhy impressionism was not in fact born at 7.35am on 13 November 1872
Knowing the exact time Monet started painting Impression: Sunrise tells us absolutely nothing about the birth of a genre that evolved over 200 yearsThe birth of impressionism now has an exact date and...
View ArticleMonet landscape found in late German collector's suitcase
Taskforce looking into Cornelius Gurlitt's collection says it will check whether the work was stolen by NazisThe taskforce looking into the late German collector Cornelius Gurlitt's long-hidden art...
View ArticleClaude Monet landscape painting discovered in art hoard in Germany
Investigators will determine whether it was looted by the Nazis, along with 1,280 other works from Cornelius Gurlitt's apartmentThe treasure trove of artworks discovered in a Munich flat in 2012...
View ArticleMonkey waiters and axolotls: the strange art of Pierre Huyghe
Truth and fiction, past and present blur in the French artists fascinating new show, which includes a monkey masked as a Japanese child, lilies stolen from Monets garden and a stone sculpture thats...
View ArticleLouvre Abu Dhabi scoops up 300 masterpieces from France
Monet, Leonardo, Van Gogh and Matisse among artworks to go on display at the £400m Arab museum when it opens in December 2015Masterpieces by Vincent Van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Claude Monet and Henri...
View ArticleMonet painting expected to set new record at Sothebys auction
Painting of Alice Hoschedé to be auctioned at Sothebys in New York is forecast to set new record for a Monet portraitNothing could be more tranquil than the woman in a shimmering painting by Claude...
View ArticleAbstract art unlocks the truth about the universe
Great abstract painters like Pollock and Monet lose themselves in colour, sensation and memory to show that reality is subjectiveAbstract art is a kind of miracle. How can a painting that is just a...
View ArticleThe 15 artworks that define Christmas – in pictures
Peasants trudging through snow, ice-skaters in the street and the baby Jesus glowing and golden in the manger … how the greatest painters have captured the majesty of the seasonContinue reading...
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