He dug the pond and altered its contours like a drawing; he diverted rivers, planted trees, sketched out curving paths, strewed lilies across the water like flecks of the brush and painted it all ...

said curator of prints and drawings Mary Weaver Chapin. Monet, too, was influenced by eastern artistic viewpoints when ...

Sotheby’s sold a Claude Monet “Water Lilies” scene for $65.5 million on Monday, a solid start to a weeklong series of New ...