The most remarkable art collections are awash in great paintings — an artform that’s declared “dead” at least once per decade and yet remains the most popular, valuable and enduring of all.

Claude Viallat is a French ... Simone et Cino del Duca prize for painting. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), ...

Private Collection The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles described a day trip to Giverny in summer 1905, to visit the home of artist Claude Monet ... s Water Lilies paintings, evoke a dreamy ...