Claude Monet was born in Paris in 1840 and studied in the Academie Suisse. ... ‘Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies’ (Nymphéas in French) (1899), oil on canvas, ...

"Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies" by Claude Monet, located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. VCG Wilson/Corbis/Getty Images The painting is the second most expensive one from the ...

Sotheby’s will offer a monumental water lilies painting by Claude Monet at its May evening auction of impressionist and modern art in New York for an estimate in the region of US$40 million.

Thinking about water lilies and painting pictures immediately brings to mind Monet, who created about 250 paintings of water lilies from the late 1890s until his death in 1926.

English street artist Banksy's reimagining of Claude Monet's "Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies" just sold for nearly $10 million. A nine-minute long bidding battle happened over the 2005 ...

Claude Monet died 90 years ago, but his famous water lilies still have power over viewers. ... When he paints that pond, he does it as an homage to Monet. KATZ: I mean, ...