Edouard Manet’s Self-portrait With a Palette has been owned by such renowned collectors as Auguste Pellerin and Jakob Goldschmidt. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images An important Édouard Manet self-portrait – one of only two that the artist ever painted – set an auction record last night when it sold in London for £22.4m. The artist’s depiction [...]

Scientists have pinpointed exactly where Claude Monet was in the Savoy Hotel when he painted Charing Cross Bridge and Waterloo Bridge in heavy smog. When Monet painted Waterloo Bridge in 1903 he was on the fifth floor balcony of the Savoy Hotel, say the scientists. Through a thick blanket of pre-war smog, it is hard [...]

The painting, which shows the sea lapping against a beach in pastel blues and greens, was valued at $1 million (euro0.69 million) at the time of its theft. Photo: EFE/Adam Cierezko. A Monet painting that was cut from its frame 10 years ago at a museum in western Poland and replaced with a copy painted [...]

Claude Monet, Canotiers à Argenteuil. This autumn Helly Nahmad Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition by the acknowledged principal of the French Impressionist school, Claude Monet. Taking in his diverse styles from the 1870s as he explored a wide range of subjects in all seasons and all types of weather in his commitment to painting in [...]

The High Museum of Art will present an exhibition of four masterpieces by Claude Monet from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, beginning June 6. The installation will feature MoMA’s renowned 42-foot-wide triptych, “Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond,” which is the largest “Water Lilies” painting in the U.S. [...]

A Corner of the Artist’s Room in Paris (with Open Window), Gwen John. National Museum & Gallery of Wales, Cardiff. “I am not myself except in my room,” wrote Gwen John to her erstwhile lover, Rodin, and her room has its own personality. The soft sunshine, the wicker chair, the open book, the window opening [...]

The Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale took place at Christie’s this evening and realized $91,210,543. The top price of the evening was paid for Claude Monet’s Dans la Prairie, 1876, which was exhibited at the seminal third Impressionist Exhibition in 1877 and which sold at this evening sale for $16,164,918. At this evening’s auction, [...]