Parisian art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel acquired some 5,000 impressionist works long before others were buying them. Claude Monet said he and his... Durand-Ruel: The Art Dealer Who Liked Impressionists ...

When his father died in 1865, Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922), aged thirty-four, became the director of his family’s art gallery in Paris. He had begun working with his father almost ten years earlier, ...

Walking through the Philadelphia Art Museum’s opening exhibit, “Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting” is a bit like travelling through time in Paris. The works of ...

Paul Durand-Ruel bought and sold 1,000 Monets and 1,500 Renoirs, together with hundreds of masterpieces by Pissarro, Sisley and Degas, gathering a collection that today would be worth hundreds of ...

Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery (photo taken by Dornac, c. 1910) (all images courtesy the National Gallery, London) LONDON — Impressionism is easily one of, if not the most, accessible ...

The Sheepfold, Moonlight, 1856-60 by Jean-François Millet: ‘sheep, moon, shepherd, dog: what a great sonneteer and shape-maker he was’. Photograph: Alamy The man who invented impressionism was not a ...

This spring, the National Gallery presents the UK's first major exhibition devoted to the man who invented Impressionism, Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922). An entrepreneurial art dealer, Durand-Ruel ...

My first reaction to the Durand-Ruel show at London’s National Gallery (NG) was simply “Wow!” A top class display of always-popular Impressionist painting, it’s sure to draw the crowds. “Inventing ...

In 1868, two years before he met Paul Durand-Ruel, Claude Monet was so broke that he tried to commit suicide by throwing himself into the Seine. He and his painter friends – Renoir, Sisley, Pissarro ...

It’s hard to believe that Monet, Degas and Renoir once faced hostility from the art world. Alastair Sooke reveals how one man changed everything. Few movements in the history of art feel as familiar ...

It might seem unusual for an exhibit to focus on a man who sold paintings rather than the artists who painted them. But there was one particular 19th century Paris art dealer who shaped the art market ...