In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, dusts and inspects Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.

Ruth Hoppe, the modern art conservator at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, ... “There are not many stories about finding water lilies behind another painting by Monet,” she said.

Those water lilies will enchant many visitors to the de Young, where “Monet: The Late Years” runs through May 27. They are featured in at least 29 of the 52 paintings on display, along with ...

While Water Lilies is getting work done, visitors can get their French art fix at the museum’s exhibit Monet to Matisse: French Moderns, which runs June 8-Sept. 15.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies (Agapanthus) (c.1915–26). Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA; Courtesy of Kimbell Art Museum. Claude Monet, The Artist’s House from the Rose Garden (1922–24).

Monet’s paintings of water lilies hang in some of the world’s most prestigious institutions and are among the most expensive artworks in the world. ... 500,000 art lovers visit a year, ...

Of the most innovative works are Lichtenstein’s Water Lilies series, a small edition on metal, which plays homage to the water lily paintings of Claude Monet. Always drawn to popular and clichéd ...

Monet at work in his large studio, 1910. From "Mad Enchantment," by Ross King.(Getty) Mad Enchantment sounds like an oxymoron, but it fairly summarizes historian Ross King's depiction of the pain ...

Monet water lilies painting sells for $24.1m in Beijing—new record for a Western work of art sold in China (The Art Newspaper) $42 Million Basquiat Becomes Most Expensive Western Artwork To Sell ...

In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, dusts and inspects Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.