Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 November 1864-1901) moved to Montmartre, Paris in 1882 and was instantly drawn to the city’s demi-monde — famous …

For the Impressionists, Japan represented a departure from ‘the West’ and all that was familiar when in 1854 it reopened to the world after more …

Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a founding member of the Impressionists — with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Alfred Sisley and later, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van …

Amid the newly established boulevards of 1870s Paris, a radical mode of painting emerged. In 1874, Claude Monet exhibited Impression, Sunrise, and the term ‘Impressionist …