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24/11/2018

24/11/2018

24/11/2018

"Another way to spend time here is enjoying a picnic lunch along the Seine before heading back to Paris, rather than dining on a potentially overpriced meal in Giverny."

Here are eight things to know before you visit Giverny, France, where you can find the gardens captured in artist Claude Monet’s paintings and more.

24/11/2018

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26/06/2017

So now, you don’t necessarily have to venture an hour outside of Paris to walk in the footsteps of Claude Monet.

Step inside the famous home and garden of artist Claude Monet. Now, seen through the lens of a new book.

23/06/2017

"Here in the dank gloom he saw Monet's first paintings of the water lily pond, the canvases done almost twenty years earlier, shown to Maurice Guillemot in 1897 but never put on public display."

Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil for the artist. In this edited extract from his new book, Mad Enchantment, Ross King reveals the little known history behind…

19/06/2017

Monet knew how to perfectly pair blue-and-white Rouen tiles with copper pots and utensils for maximum contrast in the kitchen.

The artist's punchy kitchen rivals his famous water lilies

16/06/2017

Like the greatest of paintings, the expert says, Saule pleureur rewards repeated viewing: ‘It offers up its magic quickly, but also over time.’

Conor Jordan, Deputy Chairman of Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie’s in New York, reflects on the artist’s deeply personal response to the First World War — offered on 27 June in London

12/06/2017

"For an extended period he rose by dawn in order to paint the changing effects of light as the sun came up."

Begun in 1896, Monet’s Mornings on the Seine series was not completed until 1897 because of inclement weather. Having patiently scouted out views along the river, Monet then painted the pictures from a boat that he had converted into a floating studio