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

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Who doesn't love water lilies, haystacks and gardens? Claude Monet, one of the world's most famous impressionists, lived and painted many of these subjects in his home in Giverny. Today ...

The Museum of Fine Arts has brought Claude Monet's "Water Lilies, Reflections of Weeping Willows" (c. 1916-1919) to Boston for the first time. Why it matters: This will be the most recent Monet on ...

Monet loved these summer flowers, and you will too. Water lilies, plants in the genus Nymphaea, are aquatic blooms that grow in ponds and water gardens. Their green lily pads spread out across the ...

Amid a collection of French and Japanese art lies the exhibition’s centerpiece: an unnamed painting from among roughly 250 entries in Monet’s iconic Water Lilies series which has never been ...

Home to the impressionist painter Claude Monet for half his life and the inspiration for his most famous works – those depicting colourful water-lilies and the Japanese bridge – the Monet Foundation, ...