Claude Monet

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Christie’s and Sotheby’s pin hopes for New York November sales on single-owner collections

In a subdued market, the season’s most promising auctions are of estates

Nazi-looted Monet returned to heirs after FBI traces it to New Orleans

Missing for more than 80 years, the 1865 pastel will be handed over in a ceremony today after the couple who bought it relinquished it voluntarily

Monet in London, Matisse in Basel, Frankenthaler in Florence — podcast

A chat with the curator of a new show featuring Monet's Thames views—in the very room where many were painted, plus trips to Basel and Florence for 'Matisse: Invitation to the Voyage' and 'Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules'

Churchill’s Monet—restored after many years of cigar smoke—goes on show in Courtauld blockbuster

Traces of the statesman’s smoke have been removed from the painting of Charing Cross Bridge, which took Monet 24 years to finish

Diaryblog

Monet is back in Vogue thanks to editor’s makeover

Edward Enninful is partnering with the Musée d’Orsay and the Musée de l’Orangerie to create prints inspired by the artist

September's must-see exhibitions: Monet, Van Gogh and a once forgotten Dutch Master

The Art Newspaper's pick of the top shows to see around the world this month

London calling—finally—for Claude Monet and his misty Thames landscapes

The Courtauld Gallery is honouring the artist’s ambition to reunite his paintings in the city

Flower power: $25m Monet Water Lily to make auction debut in Hong Kong

The work will headline the inaugural sale at Christie's new Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters in the Henderson building

More than 1,100 works by 400 artists: how the National Gallery collection will be redisplayed

In May 2025, after a nine-month programme of refurbishing, redesigning and relighting rooms, a new interpretation of the museum will be unveiled

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Art collection saved from Rouen cathedral blaze, says French culture minister

A fire in the cathedral's spire has been brought under control, saving the landmark which featured in the works of Claude Monet

Ten essential artworks to see in Paris

Whether you're looking for a culture hit while taking in the Olympics or strolling along the Seine on a weekend break, make sure not to miss out on these masterpieces in the City of Light

Monet to go on sale after Kunsthaus Zurich reaches settlement with Jewish heirs

The collector and textiles entrepreneur Carl Sachs sold the painting after fleeing to Switzerland from Nazi Germany in 1939

‘It must stop!’: French culture minister pursuing new law to deter art activists

Rachida Dati tweeted about implementing a penal policy to combat the vandalism of works of art following an attack on a Monet masterpiece

Sotheby's makes $198.1m in consistently strong Modern evening sale in New York

The results were led by Monet's 'Meules à Giverny' and Leonora Carrington's record-breaking 'Les Distractions de Dagobert'

Courtauld show to make Monet’s 1905 London ‘dream’ exhibition a reality

Three weeks before a planned London gallery show of his paintings of Waterloo Bridge, Charing Cross Bridge and the Houses of Parliament, the “perfectionist” Impressionist pulled out, dissatisfied with the state of his canvases

Haystack painting by Claude Monet could sell for more than $30m at Sotheby’s New York

Sotheby’s will sell a rare Monet haystack five years after a similar work broke the artist’s record at auction

Monet painting jointly owned by Nelson-Atkins Museum and donor’s descendents will be sold at auction

The museum's share of proceeds—estimated at up to $25m by Christie's—will go toward establishing an endowment fund for new acquisitions

New dawn: the birth of Impressionism revisited 150 years later for Paris exhibition

Musée d’Orsay brings together works by Monet, Renoir, Degas and others first seen in a landmark 1874 exhibition

Impressionism: still impressive 150 years later

This year's milestone will be celebrated with multiple shows around the globe

Book Clubinterview

How Claude Monet battled his own temperament and why the women in his life were ‘fundamental’ to his art

The art critic Jackie Wullschläger’s talks to us about her new book, the first major biography of the French Impressionist written in English

New London exhibition shows how Impressionists used paper to ‘capture life on the wing’

The show will emphasise the way Edgar Degas, Claude Monet among others used studies and sketches to push the boundaries of their art

Sea change: how a trip to the Riviera with Renoir changed Monet's painting

A summer blockbuster at Monaco's Grimaldi Forum will examine a pivotal moment in the Impressionist's career

Monet painting attacked with red paint and glue in Stockholm is undamaged, Nationalmuseum says

The museum is in contact with the owner, Musée d’Orsay, about reinstalling Le jardin de l’artiste à Giverny in its exhibition

Diaryblog

Lego Lilies? Ai Weiwei recreates Monet's giant masterpiece

Reinterpreted "Water Lilies"—with the addition of a mysterious dark door—debuts at London's Design Museum in April

In Germany, climate activists throw mashed potato at most expensive Monet painting sold at auction

The protestors from Letzte Generation took inspiration from a recent stunt that saw Van Gogh's Sunflowers doused in soup

Van Dyck or copies? The curious case of the socialite, the scholar and the Old Masters

Plus, Joan Mitchell and Claude Monet at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and England's Tudors head to New York

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Christie’s evening sales total $831.3m, with Texan poker player’s surprise bidding spree upstaging blue-chip successes

On a night when many works outpaced expectations in Christie's New York saleroom, Ernie Barnes’s “The Sugar Shack” sold for more than 76 times its high estimate

Rising sea levels imperil French church that inspired the Impressionists, including Monet

Coastal erosion in Normandy means that the Saint-Valery church in Varengeville-sur-Mer may soon disappear

This is not just a Monet—it’s an M&S Monet

An unrecorded painting, owned by the British high-street store Marks and Spencer, is probably a major rediscovery

Monet water lilies painting sells for $24.1m in Beijing—new record for a Western work of art sold in China

The painting was consigned to China Guardian’s first Impressionist and Modern art sale by Lévy Gorvy gallery