The most significant and sustained visions of modern London in paint are Claude Monet’s views of the Thames flaming in the fog and Frank Auerbach’s vistas of the fractured postwar city. Both bodies of ...
Works by Claude Monet and Amedeo Modigliani are expected to lead this month’s Impressionist and Modern art evening sale at Sotheby’s London. The auction house is following up last month’s historic ...
The Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition Monet and London: Views of the Thames will be the first time an important group of Claude Monet’s London paintings has ever been shown in the city together. Monet ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. “I can’t tell you about this fantastic day,” Monet wrote to his wife Alice from London’s Savoy Hotel on ...
Claude Monet's renditions of foggy London could be the earliest coloured record of the notorious 'pea souper' smog that wrapped the British capital at the turn of the 20th century, according to a ...
The coal-heavy air in turn-of-the-century, industrial London may not have been healthy to breathe. But the dense fogs made the city a shimmering, magical subject for such artists as Claude Monet.
Claude Monet wanted to hold a London exhibition of his Thames paintings in 1905, but it was cancelled at the very last moment. This story will be told in the Courtauld Gallery’s show Monet and London: ...
Jonathan Green, director of London’s Richard Green Gallery, hit the proverbial dealer’s jackpot when he unwittingly purchased three pastels by Claude Monet at a Parisian auction in 2014 for the price ...
Trends come and go, but Claude Monet is still jostling with Vincent van Gogh for the position of World’s Favourite Artist, just as he has been for the past 40 years. And advance demand for tickets for ...
BALTIMORE -- There is just one Monet moment in "Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914" at the Baltimore Museum of Art. It comes late in the exhibit when you step around the ...