Claude Monet

Take A Look Inside Monet's Garden

Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Waterlilies, Horticulture, Giverny, The Hole, New York Botanical Garden, Monet's Giverny, Impressionism, Thomas Kinkade, Slideexpand, Claude Monet, Slidepollajax, Arts News

In 1883 Claude Monet and his family rented a house with a barn that doubled as a painting studio in Giverny. Years later, the garden's green bridge, w...

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PHOTOS: In Giverny, Living Claude Monet's Impressionistic Picture

Sivan Askayo | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Giverny, Lens Baby, Travel, Claude Monet, Sivan Askayo, Impressionism, Brushstrokes, Slidepollajax, Exposure, Travel Blogs, Culture, Travel News
Sivan Askayo

A visit to Monet's home in Giverny results in some surprisingly creative travel photographs.

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'Footprints on Snow' Finds Its Way

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Video, Bergamot Station, Impressionism, Hermann Lederle, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Painting, Frank Pictures Gallery, Claude Monet, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Imagine Claude Monet's pastel Poplars... if Monet was working 100 years later and spent a lot of time on the internet... and you get somewhere close t...

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Happy Birthday Cezanne!

Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Post-Impressionism, Expressionism, Art, Cubism, Art Quiz, France, Modern Art, Impressionism, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, Paris, Arts News

Today marks the 173rd birthday of the French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne. If Impressionism is considered to be the first modern art moveme...

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WATCH: Masterpieces Recreated With Junk

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Monet, Thomas Deininger, Video, Water-Lillies-Monet, Water-Lilly-Pond, Found Art, Impressionism, Found Art Sculpture, Claude Monet, Water Lillies, Arts News

They say "one man's trash is another man's treasure," but in Thomas Deininger's recreated landscapes the old saying takes on a while new meaning. D...

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Art Dealer Arrested For $2 Million Of Fake Art

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Forgeries, Vincent Van Gogh, Guggenheim, Fbi, Rothko, Van Gogh, Moma, Art Fake, Art Scam, Monet, Art Crime, Vero Beach, Forged, Matthew Taylor, Florida, Museum of Modern Art, Claude Monet, Pollock, Art Scandal, Fake, Arts News

Is the signature on your Monet a little too legible? It could be a fake; word is they're going around. A former art dealer was arrested in South F...

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Record Sale Of Schiele Work Brings London Auction Total To $155M

Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Egon Schiele, Austria, Art, Art Auctions, Modern Art, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Painting, UK Arts, Sotheby's, Christies, Claude Monet, Arts News

Last week in London a sale of just 35 lots brought in $155 million (97 million pounds) for Sotheby's. The highest selling piece was a townscape, "Hous...

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Paris in the Time of the Impressionists

David Galenson | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Impressionists, Arts News
David Galenson

In an essay written in the 1930s, the poet Paul Valéry reflected on an extraordinary era: Degas plus Renoir; Monet plus Cézanne; and in the same way...

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Author Stephanie Cowell Chats About Claude and Camille and Her Next Historical Novel

Susan Dormady Eisenberg | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Madeleine L'Engle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Claude Monet, Historical Novels, Books News
Susan Dormady Eisenberg

Stephanie Cowell writes lush and compelling fictional portraits of the world's greatest artists, writers, and composers: their struggles, their liaisons, their failures and successes.

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Maison Sennelier: Color Inspiration From Paris

Hayley Griffith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Maison Sennelier, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Gaugin, Claude Monet, Robert Lambert, Arts News
Hayley Griffith

My color inspiration is found within the doors of a beautiful historic Parisian landmark located in front of the Louvre in France.

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Hirst, Picasso Exhibitions Slated At Tate For London Olympics

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UK, Cy Twombly, Tate, Tino Sehgal, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, Unilever Series, Olympics, Pablo Picasso, London Olympics, Tate Britain, Damien Hirst, Claude Monet, London, 2012 London Olympics, Arts News

LONDON (Reuters) - Tate museums will showcase works by 19th and 20th century giants Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Edvard Munch as well as contempo...

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PHOTOS: E.V. Day's Kaleidoscopic Reinterpretation Of Monet's Flowers

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Water Lily, Exhibition, Flowers, New York, Carolina Nitsch Gallery, E.V. Day, Geometry, Chromogenic Archival Print, Symmetry, Giverny, Claude Monet, Gardens, Peony, Slideadbigshot, Clematis, Seducers, Monet, Arts News

WHO: E.V. Day WHAT: Seducers WHEN: January 14 through March 5, 2011 WHERE: Carolina Nitsch Project Room 534 West 22 St. New York, NY 10011 212.645...

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Monet At Midnight: Visitor Demand Keeps Artist's Grand Palais Show Open 24 Hours A Day

ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monet, Grand Palais, Art, France, Claude Monet, Paris, Art Exhibitions, Arts News
ARTINFO

The massive exhibition "Claude Monet, 1840-1926" at the Grand Palais -- the first of its kind in Paris in 30 years -- has been a huge success. Online ...

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ART ECONOMY: $68.9 Mil Painting Of Nude Woman Sign of Recovery? Modigliani, Matisse And Monet Auctioned At Sotheby's

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art, Art Economy, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Fashion, Christie's, Joan Miro, Carnival Cruise Lines, Modern Art, Claude Monet, Sotheby's, Art Auctions, Impressionist Art, Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Arts News

The auction season is off to a solid start at Sotheby's where works by Amedeo Modigliani, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso were up for au...

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PHOTOS: INTERNATIONAL ART: From Murakami To Monet: 10 Things To See In Paris During FIAC

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paris Galleries, Nancy Spero, Takashi Murakami Versailles Exhibition, Slideshow, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Versailles, Chic Art Fair, Contemporary Art, Mutualart, Claude Monet, FIAC Paris, Arts News

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BLOG WATCH> Digital Nights At Singapore Art Museum

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bertrand Planes, Visual System, Nuit Blache, Miguel Chevalier, Digital Nights, Piero Manzoni, Art Installation, Roy Ascott, Claude Monet, Singapore Art Museum, Art Exhibitions, Lab-Au, Arts News

Digital Nights, an adaptation of Nuit Blanche that prioritizes the technological in the multidisciplinary vision of contemporary art, is a 10-day sho...

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AUCTION NEWS: Winners, Losers, And Surprises So Far This Year At Christie's, Sotheby's

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Gallery, Art Galleries, Irving Penn, Andy Warhol, Art Auction, Slideshow, Art Auctions, Pablo Picasso, Mahmoud Said, J.M.W. Turner, Rembrandt, Christie's, Claude Monet, Sotheby's, Arts News

Last week brought news of Christie's record-breaking sales for the first half of this year. We're happy to report that news from the art continues to ...

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Normandy Impressionist Festival: Andre Malraux Museum at Le Havre

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malraux Museum, Renoir, Musee D'Orsay, Le Havre, Normandy Impressionist Festival, Etretat, Normandy, SIsley, Pissarro, France, Matisse, Deauville, Edgar Degas, Andre Malraux, Impressionists, Olivier Senn, Art, Raoul Dufy, Claude Monet, Impressionism, Arts News
Denise Dennis

It is impossible to write about the impressionist art inside the museums of Normandy without describing the natural beauty and scenes from everyday l...

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Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer

Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: France, Art, Fine Art, Normandy, Painting, Claude Monet, Honfleur, Impressionism, Printmaking, Arts News
Denise Dennis

This summer, in a festival entitled Normandie Impressionniste, the entire Normandy region is paying homage to the artists who lived and worked here, and to the artists and places that inspired them.

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In Search of Recipe-Zen

Matthew Jacob | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Birthday Cake, Apple Cake, King Richard, Claude Monet, Recipes, Cooking, Food News
Matthew Jacob

Few things are more frustrating than misplacing or never acquiring a treasured family recipe. T. Susan Chang struggled for many years to recreate her mother's apple cake recipe. As with most types of human trauma, the first stage was denial.

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Art World Wonders If Investors Will Turn Up For Auction Season

Crain's New York Business | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NY Art Investor, Pablo Picasso, Recession, Auction Season, Christie's Impressionist Modern Art Sale, Art Auction, Christie's, Blue Chip, Claude Monet, Sotheby's, New York, New York City, New York News

The art world is anxiously awaiting the coming fall auction season, a major gauge of whether collectors are still feeling the wrath of the economic do...

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Great Houses of New York: River House, the Best Address, Part II

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdr Drive, Uneeda Biscuit, William Pahlmann, William Lawrence Bottomley, Marta Raymond, Akron Ohio, Lord & Taylor, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Maurice Fatio, Mrs. Diego De Suarez, Audrey James Coats, River Club, Sidney Wagner, Walter Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance, Harold S. Vanderbilt, The National Cash Register Co., Marty Richards, Jr., Tom Hoving, Artful Tom, George Perkins Raymond, Harry Cushing, Joseph Mullen, Etienne Drian, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitneys, Walter and Pauline Hoving, Tiffany & Co, Mr. And Mrs. William Robertson Coe, Marshall Field III, River House, Ruth Baker Pratt, Frederick W. Patterson, King Edward VII, David Adler, William Rheinlander Stewart, Columbia, Eleanor McMillen Brown, Claude Monet, Mary Lea Johnson Richards, Clare Booth and Henry Luce, James A. Burden, Susan Hume Fraszer, Bonwitttelle, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Another trip to the fabulous River House overlooking the East River.

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French Delights Overshadow Economic Slump, Uncertainty

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mont St. Michel, Musée Des Impressionismes, Val D?Europe, French, Sophia Loren, Dom Perignon, Princess Grace, Crayfish, Oysters, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Normandy, Paris, Belgian, Coke, Afp, Hervé Novelli, Euro Disney, Champagne Region, French Fries, Christian Dior, Moët Et Chandon, Louvre Museum, Granville, Japanese, Wwii, Economist Intelligence Unit, Mona Lisa, Napoleon Bonaparte, France, Lobsters, Eiffel Tower, Medieval, Ile De France, Youtube, Place Du Tertre, Montmartre, Musée Eugène Delacroix, Mussels, Claude Monet, James Bond, Notre-Dame De Reims, Gothic, Scriptorial, Provins, Avranches, Epernay, Reims, Marne-La-Valée-Chessy, Giverny, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

France may be in a slump, with a hyper-kinetic president intent on structural reforms to counter mounting deficits, but it remains the number one international destination for visitors offering more delights than can be fathomed on a 20-day visit.

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Christie's Fails To Find Buyers For 14 Works

Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christie's Auction House, Christie's, Claude Monet, Business News

For the first time in four years, Christie's fell short of its pre-sale estimate at an evening art auction. The auction house sold off $277 million wo...

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Gunmen Grab $163m in Art at Swiss Museum

AP | ERNST E. ABEGG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Heist, E.G. Buehrle Collection, Claude Monet, Monet, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Swiss Museums, European Museums, Zurich Museums, Art Robbers, Paul Cezanne, Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Degas, Business News

ZURICH, Switzerland — Three gunmen in ski masks and dark clothes burst into a museum just before closing time. After a quick run through the bui...

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