The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described ... He thought Monet had now “severed his last ties” with descriptive painting. The paintings were in this sense paradoxical: They pushed Impressionism ...

During the Franco-Prussian War and the ensuing civil war, many artists fled to other French cities or London. However, ...

Garden at Sainte-Adresse often comes up when we think of the influences of Japanese wood prints on Impressionism. Pierre-Auguste Renoir actually called this particular artwork the Japanese painting.

By Barb Arland-Fye Editor National Public Radio’s Morning Edition aired a story earlier this month about two young adult ...

The three major houses are playing it safe, focusing on blue-chip names and leaving less space for discoveries on the ...

When life gave her lemon sharks, Nansi Bielanski Gallup made lemon shark art. Named for its yellowish color, the lemon shark ...

A Swiss art dealer, Yves Bouvier, is at the centre of a long-running legal saga after a French court ruled that ...