Before he decided to go by his first name, Claude, the teenage "Oscar" Monet sold bold, jokey sketches of celebrities and local grandees in his hometown, Le Havre, for 20 francs apiece—a ...

I went to the Clark to see "The Unkown Monet," and it is a treat. There are very few finished paintings — the show is mostly drawings and pastels. It is interesting, I think, to see early work by an ...

Claude Monet is known as the first artist to use and make famous the art of ‘Impressionism’. Born in Paris, Monet's technique was in his ability to capture the beauty of nature. From haystacks ...

This time two activists splashed mashed potatoes on glass protecting a painting by 19th century French impressionist painter Oscar-Claude Monet at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany.