Only Claude Monet could turn a stack of hay into stacks of money. The Impressionist’s Meules à Giverny from 1893 will headline next month’s Modern Evening Auction at Sotheby’s, with a pre-sale ...

A Claude Monet painting, "Meule," part of his famous grainstack series, sold at auction in New York Wednesday for 81.4 million dollars, a record for the French master, Christie's said. The previous ...

A painting from Claude Monet's Haystacks series has sold for $110.7million in New York - setting a new world record price for the French Impressionist's work. The oil on canvas, titled Meules and ...

In 1883, painter Claude Monet (1840–1926) moved to the small village of Giverny in Normandy, France. He had fallen behind on rent in the Paris suburbs and was about to be evicted onto the streets with ...

“We are in a climate catastrophe,” climate activists yelled after they covered Monet’s “Grainstacks” painting in mashed potatoes at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany. The protest comes just a ...

Activists from Letzte Generation (Last Generation) threw mashed potatoes at a Monet painting to protest climate change inaction. (all images courtesy Letzte Generation) Already a member? Sign in here.

Claude Monet’s Grainstacks painting was recently defaced by two activists, the latest in a recent spate of “art attacks” that aim to draw attention to climate change. Housed in Potsdam, Germany’s ...

“Reflecting on the 150th anniversary of the very first Impressionist exhibition, we cannot take for granted how truly radical Monet was as a painter,” Allegra Bettini, the head of the Modern Evening ...