An 130-year-old painting by French impressionist Claude Monet was seemingly irreparably damaged after an incensed man punched it in 2012 while was on display in Dublin's National Gallery of Ireland.

After moving to Paris, Monet met other avant-garde artists, including Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon School painters, who encouraged him to pursue a realist and naturalist approach to painting.

The bright and vivid colors are applied in spontaneous, animated brushstrokes, thus providing the painting with a casual touch. Out of roughly 140 snowscapes signed by Monet, The Magpie is ...

A painting by Claude Monet has been bought for $110.7m (£85.7m), a new world record for a work by the French artist. Monet completed the oil painting in 1890 as part of his Meules (Haystacks ...