THE HAGUE — The pioneering French Impressionist Claude Monet spent the final decades of his life obsessed with his gardens in Giverny, France, painting hundreds of images of water lilies and ...

Monet at work in his large studio, 1910. From "Mad Enchantment," by Ross King.(Getty) Mad Enchantment sounds like an oxymoron, but it fairly summarizes historian Ross King's depiction of the pain ...

The water lilies’ panels, built into the walls, couldn’t travel with the rest of the collection. Advertisement Monet painted hundreds of works of water lilies; eight of the most famous are ...

In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, dusts and inspects Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.

View full size Marvin Fong l The Plain Dealer Dean Yoder of the Cleveland Museum of Art on Friday removes dust from a water lilies painting done by Claude Monet. The painting will be sent out to ...

A 1905 painting from Claude Monet's Water Lilies series sold for million. Tim Marlow, the artistic programmes director of the RA, said it was not just the oil paintings that were important: ...

Topline. A painting of a pond of water lilies by French impressionist Claude Monet brought in roughly $24.1 million at auction in Beijing, the highest price for a Western artist’s work ever sold ...

Entitled “Le bassin aux nymphéas” or “Water lily pond,” the two-meter- (6.6-foot-) wide painting forms part of Monet’s famous “Water Lilies” series, depicting light dappling across ...

One of Claude Monet's series of "Nymphéas," or "Water Lilies," purchased in 1930 in New York. Estate of Huguette M. Clark / Christie's As well as becoming one of the most iconic names in the art ...

WATER RECEIVING FEDERAL FUNDING. THE SPEED ART MUSEUM IS SHOWING OFF ONE OF CLAUDE MONET’S MOST CELEBRATED PAINTINGS IN A NEW EXHIBIT THE PIECES ON TEMPORARY LOAN AND CURATORS SAY THIS IS A ONCE ...

In this Jan. 19, 2011 photo, Dean Yoder, conservator of paintings for the Cleveland Museum of Art, dusts and inspects Claude Monet's vast water lilies painting at the museum in Cleveland.