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Painter Joan Mitchell Is Put on Equal Footing with Monet at Paris’s Fondation...
Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning still tend to dominate the conversation about Abstract Expressionism, even though women associated with the movement, like Lee Krasner and Elaine de...
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Ai Weiwei Uses 650,000 Lego Bricks for Recreation of Monet’s Monumental...
Art fans can already build Lego sets of Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe screen prints, Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, and Hokusai’s The Great Wave. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei recently took that...
View ArticleClimate Activists Smear Red Paint on Monet Painting at National Museum in Sweden
Two climate activists smeared red paint and glued their hands to the protective glass on a Monet painting on display at the National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. The two women, wearing name tags...
View ArticleUS Feds File Forfeiture Complaint for Picasso Drawing Sold by Christie’s to...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. The legacy of the 1MDB scandal on the...
View ArticleChristie’s to Offer Monet Water Lily Painting with $65 M. Estimate in November
Christie’s announced Thursday that it will offer Claude Monet’s painting Le bassin aux nymphéas (1917-1919) at its 20th Century evening sale in New York this November. The painting, which will sell...
View ArticleInvestment Firm Founder’s Trust Seeks Payment for Monet Paintings Burned in Fire
Four Claude Monet paintings that belonged to an investment firm founder were destroyed in a fire, according to papers that accompany a lawsuit over the works’ insurance that his wife filed last year....
View ArticleClimate Protestors Throw Soup at Monet Painting at French Museum
Two climate protestors threw soup at a Claude Monet painting at the Musee de Beaux-Arts in Lyon, France, on Saturday afternoon. The target of the environmental activists was Monet’s 1872 work Le...
View ArticleBacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale in London
Christie’s big 20th and 21st century art sales in London this year will be led by two landscapes: a dynamic and passionate Francis Bacon and a wistful Monet, both of which have not been seen at...
View ArticleChicago’s Union League Club to Sell Monet Painting to Fund $10 M. Building...
The Union League Club of Chicago is selling its prized painting by Claude Monet and a work by Walter Ufer to help pay for a $10 million renovation of its building. The Monet painting, Pommiers en...
View ArticleNelson-Atkins Museum to Sell $18 M. Monet Painting at Christie’s in May
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City will sell a Claude Monet that has been on view in its galleries for more than a decade this May at Christie’s, where it could fetch as much as $25...
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