Monet started painting haystacks in the mid-1880s, about 15 years after that pivotal exhibition in Paris. His best-known haystack works are a series he completed in the picturesque French village ...

His bold, spontaneous painting technique out in the open influenced a generation of artists and broke with the academic traditions of the time. One of these painters was Claude Monet, a pupil and ...

One of Claude Monet’s “monumental” water lilies paintings will go under the hammer in New York for an estimate in the region of US$40 million. Le Bassin aux Nympheas has been described by au ...