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Mona Lisa in English breakfast tea attack

11.08.09
Woman was being held in Paris after attacking the Mona Lisa with a cup of English breakfast tea... more

Retreat from Paris

01.07.09
A new exhibition opening next week celebrates the forest of Fontainebleau that inspired the Barbizon painters. Philippa Stockley follows in their footsteps... more

Impressionist greats on show before £60m sale

12.01.09
Art not seen at auction for generations has gone on view in the run-up to a £60 million sale next month... more

Celebration as Sotheby's sale tops £100 million

26.06.08
Sotheby's is celebrating after more than £100 million was spent during a night of record-breaking art sales... more

Gormley joins Monet for a record art sale season

17.06.08
More than £200 million worth of art, including a large model of Antony Gormley's Angel Of The North, goes on view at Sotheby's in London... more

Monet on track to make £19.8million record

22.02.08
One of the best examples of impressionist painting, Le Pont Du Chemin De Fer A Argenteuil, is set to make close to £20m at auction.... more

£20m Van Gogh left on shelf

08.11.07
High profile impressionist paintings failed to sell at auction at Sotheby's in New York prompting fears that art's dizzy boom could be nearing an end. ... more

The art of giving

29.10.07
The National Gallery and the Tate have announced one of the most significant bequests of paintings ever made to the nation.... more

£150m art show that's all for sale

11.10.07
Christie's has launched a new gallery space in London with a £150 million public exhibition.... more

Master forger reveals secrets of his dark art

19.07.07
A convicted conman who has gone straight is to reveal the secrets of his art re-creations in a series of talks... more

£18 million Monet triples its estimate

19.06.07
A painting by Claude Monet of Waterloo bridge has fetched three times its estimated price at an auction at Christie's in London.... more

The secret of Monet's style, part II

14.06.07
It has emerged that Claude Monet's famously blurred paintings may have been affected by London's weather... more

Critic's choice: top 5 exhibitions

31.05.07
Antony Gormley's fog in a box, a collaboration between Dali and Disney plus the last chance to see Monet's pastels are some of London's top exhibition draws.... more

Critic's choice: top five exhibitions

24.05.07
Hephzibah Anderson picks the best of this week's exhibitions, including Tate Britain's first major photography exhibition, Anthony Gormley's latest show at the Hayward, and Monet at the Royal Academy.... more

Monet's water lilies up for sale

22.05.07
A painting by Claude Monet that has not been seen in public for 70 years is expected to make up to £15 million at auction... more

Monet's style secret: his poor eyesight

15.05.07
Scientists believe they have discovered the secret behind the work of Claude Monet, one of the founders of Impressionist painting.... more

Critic's choice: Top 5 exhibitions

19.04.07
The Royal Academy's latest exhibition reveals that Monet was a thoughtful draughtsman, East meets West in A Slap in the Face! and it's your last chance to see Tate Modern's Sliding Doors.... more

Sotheby's £95m art sale bonanza

06.02.07
Sotheby's sale of Impressionist and early 20th-century art in New Bond Street made £95 million - the largest sum ever to change hands at an auction in Europe.... more

RA show draws on Monet

03.11.06
The first exhibition devoted to the drawings and pastels of Monet is to be staged by the Royal Academy as part of its 2007 programme.... more

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