Impressionist champion inspires gallery's biggest show An exhibition looks at the legacy of visionary art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who risked everything to promote impressionist artists. AAP · Jun 19
Why impressionists loved to paint gardens Dahlias thrust their colours skywards; hollyhocks frame a child at play; peasants tend cabbages; water lilies dot the surface of a pond. The “impressionist garden” captures all of these moments and more. The Conversation · Jun 9
Ryan Moore guides Delacroix to Eclipse win and puts Oisin Murphy in the shade Ryan Moore pulled off an audacious move to win the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown as Oisin Murphy went winless on his return after drink-driving conviction The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2025
‘It makes me sick!’ How the French impressionists went from ‘lunatics’ to luminaries The National Gallery of Victoria’s new show French Impressionism celebrates the likes of Monet, Renoir, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro, who painted in the face of public outrage The Guardian - AU · Jun 9, 2025
‘There are too many unpleasant things in life without creating more’: why Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement Impressionism is the world’s favourite art movement. The Conversation · Jun 6, 2025
No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist IN FOCUS: It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured paintings have never been surpassed, says Mark Hudson The Independent UK · Apr 13, 2025
Vive L’impressionnisme! at the Van Gogh Museum: a compelling, eco-conscious celebration of impressionism Despite its corny title, Vive L’Impressionnisme!, which recently opened at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is well worth seeing. Marking the 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition, the show tells the story of how one of the movement’s founders, Claude Monet, and his contemporaries were supported by a… The Conversation · Oct 16, 2024
As France celebrates, it doesn’t seem like 150 years since the first impressionist exhibition A major exhibition opens at the Musée d’Orsay and there are shows and festivals across the country The Guardian - UK · Feb 24, 2024
A painting looted by Nazis, a garden in a gallery and Pasquarosa’s hues – the week in art Camille Pissaro’s stolen work, the London Art Fair and explosions of fauvist colour – all in your weekly dispatch The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2024
Madrid museum has right to keep Nazi-looted Pissarro, says US court Appeal decision unanimous but one judge says she had hoped Spain would voluntarily return piece to Jewish family The Guardian - UK · Jan 10, 2024
‘It’s time to re-examine its radical nature’: Paris to celebrate 150 years of impressionism Musée d’Orsay to open a major show to throw new light on the 1874 exhibition that marked the advent of avant-garde art The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2023
Impressionists on Paper: Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec review – a show full of surprises From Monet’s pastel sunsets to a beautifully bleak Van Gogh landscape and Pissarro’s summer orchard, the RA gathers fragile, rarely seen works, many made at speed, out and about and up close The Guardian - UK · Nov 26, 2023
Monet in Lego, modern art’s birth and Hockney’s bigger leash – the week in art Ai Weiwei recreates a masterpiece in 650,000 pieces, Picasso and Matisse as arty midwives and dog portraits you won’t find in a charity shop – all in your weekly dispatch The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2023
New Paris exhibition reveals importance of Claude Monet’s forgotten older brother Leon Monet is the subject of a new exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris The Independent UK · Mar 16, 2023
Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 16, 2023 Exhibit: ‘Invisible’ Monet, Leon, Was Key to Impressionism Behind some great men, there is a bigger brother. Claude Monet’s older sibling is the focus of a landmark Paris exhibit illuminating the hitherto unknown role Leon Monet played in the French impressionist painter’s life and art. Leon — a color chemist four years his senior -- is now understood…
The Independent UK · Mar 16, 2023 Exhibit: 'Invisible' Monet, Leon, was key to impressionism Claude Monet’s older sibling is the focus of a landmark Paris exhibit illuminating the hitherto unknown role Leon Monet played in the French impressionist painter’s life and art
The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2022 The Turbine Hall is back, Cerith Wyn Evans goes home and an Egyptian stone speaks – the week in art Radical Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña takes over the Turbine, an international star returns to his Welsh roots and The British Museum unlocks hieroglyphic secrets
The Guardian - UK · May 23, 2022 Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – quiet man of art brought into the light The impressionist painter lacks the glitzy kudos of peers such as Monet and Degas but is celebrated in this study, tied to an exhibition of his work
The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022 Supreme Court revives fight over painting stolen by Nazis The Supreme Court is keeping alive a California man’s hope of reclaiming a valuable impressionist masterpiece taken from his family by the Nazis and now on display in a Spanish museum
The Guardian - UK · Feb 16, 2022 Pissarro: Father of Impressionism review – the ‘old man’ who was always pushing art forward Camille Pissarro may be less famous than Monet, Renoir or Degas but his genius lay in always making you think, not feel
The Independent UK · Jan 18, 2022 High court hears case involving painting stolen by Nazis The Supreme Court has heard arguments from lawyers for a California man and a Spanish museum locked in a dispute over an impressionist masterpiece stolen by the Nazis