The school of art known as Impressionism had been flourishing ... After Blanche died in 1947, the garden was neglected. Several of Monet’s Water Lilies canvases that had never been displayed ...

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, ...

Monet's house and gardens in Giverny, three hours' drive from the port of Cherbourg, are widely celebrated. Here, in the ...

This new approach shocked at first, then found its audience, until it eventually grew into a major movement in the history of art ... the Water Lily Pond, time slows to a crawl. Claude Monet ...

Michel Monet, sold Water Lilies to other American museums, and there were exhibitions including them on both sides of the ...