One of the founders of the Impressionist art movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is known for capturing intimate and joyful ...

Now showing at Chicago's Art Institute, an exhibition of works by Gustave Caillebotte offers a fresh perspective on a French ...

A fascinating exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, the first of its kind, takes a close look at douard Manet and ...

Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.

French painter Pierre Soulages, an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black, has died, according to the Soulages Museum in his hometown of Rodez. He was 102. Soulages ...

Françoise Gilot, a prolific and acclaimed painter who produced art for more than a half-century but was nonetheless more famous for her turbulent relationship with Pablo Picasso — and for leaving him ...

The Baroque artwork stopped an auctioneer in his tracks during a routine property visit. The newly discovered piece will go ...

THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

Pierre Soulages, the abstract French painter who for more than 40 years dedicated his work solely to the color black, has died at the age of 102. The news was announced by the Musée Soulages in his ...

It is one thing to know, perhaps vaguely, that many American artists ventured to France in the mid-19th through early 20th centuries to study in French academies and ateliers. It’s another to ...

A fascinating exhibition at San Francisco's Legion of Honor, the first of its kind, takes a close look at Édouard Manet and ...