The precious flowers, drifting, their movement almost imperceptible, over the liquid blue-green surfaces of the artist’s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy contentment, as if the world is in ...

That was 66 years ago. The Portland Art Museum bought “Waterlilies” in 1959 for $60,000 (just over $650,000 in today’s money, ...

One of Claude Monet’s “monumental” water lilies paintings will go under the hammer in New York for an estimate in the region of US$40 million. Le Bassin aux Nympheas has been described by au ...