Reprinted with permission from W.W. Norton & Company. People later said of Claude Monet’s series of 30 paintings of Rouen ...

Many children develop a short-lived fascination with bugs, but French artist Edouard Martinet’s childhood curiosity has stayed with him to this day.

When Edouard Manet's painting Olympia is hung in the Salon of Paris in 1865, it is met with jeers, laughter, criticism, and disdain. It is attacked by the public, the critics, the newspapers.

Edouard Marcel Sandoz was a Swiss animalier sculptor ... his primary occupation led him to found the French Society of Animalists in 1933. “In art, one has to love everything: nature, science, one's ...

Antoni Tàpies was a Spanish artist known for his mixed-media paintings that incorporated marble dust, found objects, and resin as seen in his seminal work Grey and Green Painting (1957). Social themes ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Charles Édouard Delort was a French 19th Century painter who was born in 1841.