One of Monet’s most unique paintings, La Japonaise is completely different from his usual genre of soft colours, nature, ...

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Michel Monet valued “Waterlilies” as one of his father’s most important paintings, said Lloyd DeWitt, the Portland Art Museum ...

This glossiness, she said, altered “a really integral part of what he was trying to convey with these paintings.” What Monet hoped to capture with Waterlilies was not a faithful replica of the ...

Hokusai is known for his magnificent print “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” 1831, but it’s his “Large Flower” series, created around the same time (1833-34) that influenced Monet.

You walk into the yellow dining room lined with some of his 230 Japanese prints.” Monet’s Floating Worlds opened to the public on Saturday, March 1. Amid a collection of French and Japanese ...