1 June 2020
Great Artworks Explained A New Video Series By James Payne
This is a new series by Artist/historian James Payne demystifying great works of art. We will be adding to this page as the content is produced.
Is MFA Boston’s Monet Kimonos Dress Up Event An Insensitive Racist Outrage?
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston has cancelled their programme which allowed museum-goers to dress up in kimonos inspired by the well known Claude Monet painting in their collection, depicting the artist’s wife wearing the garment . The Museum has now apologised and stopped the popular event which caused demonstrations and was seen to be insensitive. Monet exhibited this iconic work at […]
Unearthed: New Details Of Claude Monet’s Planning Struggle In Creating Giverny
The Royal Academy of Arts will be presenting a new exhibition exploring ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse’, this major exhibition will examine the role of gardens in the paintings of Claude Monet and his contemporaries. With Monet as the starting point, the exhibition will span the early 1860s to the 1920s, a period of tremendous social change […]
9 January 2015
Sotheby’s To Offer Claude Monet Work Estimated At £20-30 Million
An exceptionally rare and important view of Venice by Claude Monet, Le Grand Canal of 1908, will lead Sotheby’s forthcoming London Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on 3rd February 2015 estimated at £20 to 30 million ($30.6 to 45.9 million or €25.6 to 38.3 million). Helena Newman, Sotheby’s Co-Head, Impressionist & Modern Art Worldwide, […]
Trio Of Monets Could Exceed £40 Million At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s upcoming November Impressionist and modern art sale–has unveiled three major works by Claude Monet – all from the same private American collection – these works will be offered in New York on November 4 and could take over £40 million combined. The paintings pre-date the artist’s famous waterlily series, and are from the 1880s […]
Claude Monet Landscape Uncovered In Suitcase Belonging To Cornelius Gurlitt
A newly discovered painting by Claude Monet has come to light in the Gurlitt Nazi restitution case. The landscape was found in a suitcase left at a hospital where the German citizen had been treated. The masterpiece was handed over to the administrators of his estate. Cornelius Gurlitt was the son of a notorious Nazi […]
12 June 2014
Claude Monet Water Lilies Set To Fetch £20-30m At Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s London is offering as a highlight of the Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale on Monday 23rd June 2014 Claude Monet’s Nymphéas (Water Lilies) of 1906, estimated at £20-30 million/ $33-50 million. Instantly recognisable and revered the world over, Claude Monet’s Nymphéas are among the most iconic and celebrated paintings of turn of the […]
Stolen Cezanne Masterpiece Discovered In Serbia
Serbia officials have announced the recovery of what they believe to be a missing masterpiece by Impressionist Paul Cezanne If this is the case, the artwork would worth at least $109 million. The work in question went missing four years in the one of the world’s most famous art heists. As an added bonus, Serbian […]