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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 ...
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 ...
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What Is Marcel Duchamp’s Most Famous Painting?
Marcel Duchamp, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, left no heart untouched. His artworks caused disgust, ...
Famous Artists Who Defined And Continue To Shape The World Of Art
Whether you admire the emotional canvases of the Italian Renaissance or get curious about contemporary art installations, art ...
My grandfather met Winston Churchill in the WWI trenches – he said he liked his hat
After their initial wartime meeting, Paul Maze and Churchill forged a lifelong friendship. Maze, who was born in Le Havre but ...
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My grandfather taught Churchill to paint – his nickname was Companion of the Brush
who is often referred to as ‘the last of the post-Impressionists’. She moved here from west London in 2006 with her husband, ...
‘What does it mean to try to make art in these strange, difficult times?’
Hari Kunzru is the author of bestsellers like Red Pill, White Tears, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, and The ...
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Five locations in France that inspired famous Impressionists
His brother, Théo, arranged for Dr Paul Gachet to look after him, and Van Gogh’s painting of the physician is still one of his most revered ... one of France’s best kept secrets, the Creuse Valley was ...