Claude Monet and Henri Matisse may already be household names for fans of Impressionism, French painting or water lilies, but ...

The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte’s “Young Man at His Window,” which is considered a key work in the history of impressionism. (Image from Wikipedia is in ...

The international tour of The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute concludes in Houston at the MFAH. Showcasing the Clark's holdings of ...

Monet … Degas … Renoir. When we think of French Impressionism, it's the usual suspects who spring to mind. But one lesser-known artist is ripe for rediscovery ...

A new exhibit at The Society of the Four Arts offers a fresh look at the life and work of pioneering impressionist Edgar Degas. On display at the Esther B. O’Keeffe building, “Edgar Degas, The Private ...

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As the contemporary French historian Daniel Halévy put it, Degas “became an impoverished painter who had to earn his living and support his brothers who had become poor like himself. His choice of new ...

New York (CNN) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored ...

Paul Cezanne’s still life “Bouilloire et Fruits” sold for a near-record $59 million at auction Monday, in another remarkable chapter in the story of a painting that was once owned by a French baron, ...

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