Hundreds of the most famous paintings ever committed to canvas almost never came into being — all because of a group of paranoid French farmers, an exhibition curator has revealed. Claude Monet ...

Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” series is coveted by museums and private collectors worldwide. But one Dutch museum owned one without even knowing it. Experts at the Gemeentemuseum in the Hague ...

Researchers at a Dutch museum made a surprise discovery when they took a painting of wisteria off the wall for the first time since the 1960s. By Nina Siegal THE HAGUE — The pioneering French ...

A painting of a pond of water lilies by French impressionist Claude Monet brought in roughly $24.1 million at auction in Beijing, the highest price for a Western artist’s work ever sold in mainland ...

A Claude Monet painting of water lilies has sold for almost £32m, the second highest price ever paid for the French artist at auction. The bidding for the work, painted in a square format in 1906, ...

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 auction ...

A masterpiece by French impressionist Claude Monet which has not been seen in public since 1962 is expected to sell for £35m when it goes under the hammer later this month. Sotheby's London will sell ...

By recreating the sensation of a pond, where ethereal creatures drift, dissolve and reappear, the installation invites ...