GIVERNY, France — “My greatest masterpiece,” Claude Monet once said, “is my garden.” Looking at his garden here, I could not argue that this profusion of flowers and ponds was less than a masterpiece, ...

In 1914, Claude Monet was having a bad year. His beloved wife had died, cataracts clouded his vision, toothache dogged him, and Europe had plunged headlong into war. Soon, his son would be stationed ...

Giverny, France – Claude Monet's Gardens are both intimately familiar and overwhelming in their spectacle. The French impressionist master lived in Giverny, France, for half his life, from 1883 to his ...

NOTE: this story and the accompanying photographs originally ran in the Free Press in October 2009. We are reprinting it in honor of the Monet Giverny painting that went on display at the Detroit ...

The gardens that gave French painter Claude Monet more than two decades of inspiration to create magnificent works of art now on display around the world have finally reopened to the public. Giverny, ...

Every winter, the head gardener at Claude Monet’s garden in the tiny French village of Giverny sits down to a stack of seed catalogs—and braces for disappointment. Jean-Marie Avisard knows he must ...

Impressionism has always been a fan favorite, and when the French movement marked its 150th birthday last year, museums worldwide feted it with one exhibition after another. Loosely painted landscapes ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On his first free day after signing the armistice in November 1918, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau wanted ...

Monet’s cat has found its way home to the artist’s house in Giverny, in northern France. During the painter’s lifetime, the glazed biscuit pottery cat, made in Japan, spent many years curled up on a ...

After writing and producing a movie and writing two books about Monet’s gardens, entrepreneur Aileen Bordman has added wine to the Monet’s Palate brand. Following in the footsteps of her mother, Dame ...