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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Monet, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Caillebotte will be in the spotlight in an exhibition at Paris' Musée d'Orsay starting on Sept. 25. By Rebecca Leffler Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus Edouard Manet - P ...

Whether French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte was gay is not known, although it is frequently noted that he never married. (The artist died young, at 45, in 1894 from what is thought to ...

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