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A Rare Monet Painting Has Been Returned to the Family of Its Rightful Owners—Eight Decades After It Was Stolen by the Nazis
The Gestapo seized the Impressionist painting from storage after its owners fled from their home in Vienna. Now, the piece ...
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MFA's modern art collection gets $25M boost
This landmark gift will allow the Museum of Fine Arts Boston to create galleries that will highlight significant works which ...
MFA receives $25 million gift to expand modern art program
Donated by the Wyss Foundation, the gift will fund two new staff positions and renovations to create four new galleries.
How the Impressionists Became the World’s Favorite Painters, and the Most Misunderstood
Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance ...
The Art Newspaper13h
Lucian Freud's Ria leads Christie's Frieze week evening sale at £11.8m
Despite some tense moments and a difficult market, the event proved solid, 'affirming' the auction house's decision to scrap ...
New Exhibition Showcases the Works of Francis Newton Souza - A Founding Member of the Progressive Artists' Group
Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) was a key figure in the founding of the Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) in 1947, alongside iconic artists Syed Haider Raza, K. H. Ara, Maqbool Fida Husain, H. A. Gade ...
Nazi-looted Monet artwork returned to family generations later
A Nazi-looted Claude Monet pastel has been returned to descendants of the man who owned it when it was seized in Austria ...
NOLA.com1d
After 86 years in limbo, FBI helps family recover a Monet stolen by Nazis and found in Louisiana
A Monet drawing that was stolen by the Nazis was tracked to Port Sulphur Louisiana and was returned to the heirs by the FBI ...
NL Times1d
An exhibition celebrating impressionism to open on Friday at the Van Gogh Museum
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam will open an exhibition on Friday about 150 years of impressionism. More than 100 of the ...
150 years of Impressionism: Dutch museums celebrate with major show
On April 15, 1874, a group of young artists put their paintings on display in Paris - and Impressionism was born. Their move ...
Northamptonshire Telegraph on MSN1d
Children see the bigger picture using famous paintings to develop their communication and language skills
Using the work of artist Henri Matisse stimulated young children’s development thanks to University of Northampton's ...