First we meet Oscar, Claude's given name, a teenage caricaturist sketching notable figures in the port city of Le Havre. By ...

It’s the summer of 1916. For a few months now, Monet has taken up a large studio that he had built overlooking his garden so he could work on the vast canvases of the Water Lilies. I’d like to capture ...

The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny in summer 1905, to visit the home of artist Claude ...

He sought to give an impression of spontaneity in his painting, making him a pioneer of what is now called Impressionism. At ...

More important, though, was the way his genius was understood. Stunned by Monet’s unerring vision and technical facility, his envious contemporaries tended to discount any deeper emotional or ...

Although Monet created his composition of Charing Cross Bridge in 1899-1900, he made adjustments to it in 1902, at his studio at Giverny. There the picture remained until he sold it in 1923 (three ...

Art & Exhibitions Monet’s Obsessive Paintings of the Thames Reunited in London for the First Time in 120 Years. A once-in-a-lifetime exhibition is on view now at the Courtauld in London.

Monet retreated to his oasis in Giverny, a village 50 miles outside of Paris, and continued the Sisyphean task he’d been laboring under for much the preceding two decades: painting water lilies ...

On his first free day after signing the armistice in November 1918, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau wanted to escape to only one place: Claude Monet’s home at Giverny.

Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond, 1905.In earlier works, Monet painted the footbridge in a crisp, distinct arc. Here, its faint, shadowy curves blend into greenery of the natural surroundings.