The Musée d'Orsay is partnering with 12 museums around France in a project that uses impressionist art to highlight climate ...

Unlike Manet, Degas, Renoir and Cassatt, Gustave Caillebotte mostly painted men rather than women — men at work, men in repose, even naked men getting out of the bath.

A local antique shop may have just stumbled across a hidden treasure that could be big news for art enthusiasts and ...

This was a period marked by great transformation and development in society, celebrating machinery, transport, medicine and invention. It was also the heyday of Impressionism, a movement in which ...

Known in English as “St. Honoré Street in the afternoon. Effect of rain,” Pissarro, one of the major artists of the impressionist movement, painted the work from the window of a hotel where he stayed ...

An impressionist painting worth millions of dollars is at the heart of an ongoing legal battle between the family of a ...

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Photo: Jordan Riefe for Observer Invited by Degas to exhibit in the first Impressionist show of 1874 ... he returned in 1882 when the movement was beginning to fray. “Monet and Renoir needed ...

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