Monet started painting haystacks in the mid-1880s, about 15 years after that pivotal exhibition in Paris. His best-known haystack works are a series he completed in the picturesque French village ...

A painting by Claude Monet has been bought for $110.7m (£85.7m), a new world record for a work by the French artist. Monet completed the oil painting in 1890 as part of his Meules (Haystacks ...

Monet's paintings, and our sustained appreciation ... Wullschläger gives the sense, however, that the paintings make it all worth it, describing his work as a "heroic achievement." ...