News

When Pablo Picasso was fascinated by a 17-year-old girl he met near the Galeries Lafayette in 1927, he was still married to the former ballerina Olga Khokhlova. Soon Maria-Teresa Walter became his ..

On Thursday, August 27, thieves stole a valuable painting by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals from a small museum near Utrecht. The painting "Two Laughing Youths with a Beer Jug" seems to have bec..

Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones may be considered one of the greatest rock guitarists. But will critics praise his artistic ability in the same way? The British Newspaper The Guardian published the ..

Art critics have carried out a three-dimensional reconstruction of the face of the Italian artist Raphael, trying to unravel the centuries-old mystery of his final resting place. This was reported by ..

Beware of selfies in an art museum: yet another awkward art lover damaged the piece in an attempt to find the perfect angle. His victim was a historical plaster model created by the Italian sculpto..

Several galleries and museums have been destroyed or severely damaged in an explosion and fire in the Lebanese capital on Tuesday.Two powerful explosions in the port of Beirut on Tuesday night killed ..

A small portrait of Rembrandt sets a new recordA rare Rembrandt self-portrait - one of only three remaining in private hands - was auctioned in London for £ 14.5 million ($ 18.8 million). He became th..

The place where Van Gogh painted his last masterpiece has been discoveredOn Tuesday 28 July, a ceremony was held in Auvers-sur-Oise to celebrate the place where Vincent van Gogh painted his last maste..

The Royal Mauritshuis Gallery in The Hague has announced the reunion of a pair of wedding portraits by Bartholomeus Brain the Elder. The looks of Jacob Omphalius and his fiancée Elisabeth Bellinghause..

“I got an idea that day and night exist together, they are one. This is reasonable, or at least corresponds to our knowledge: in the world, night always exists simultaneously with day. Just as some pe..

$17 M. Francis Bacon «Portrait of Sole Heir» heads to Sotheby’s London AuctionFollowing the $85 million achieved for a monumental Francis Bacon triptych that led Sotheby’s marquee contemporary auction..

Gustav Klimt - brilliant, alluring, intriguing ... The genius of the Vienna secession, “one of the fathers of European Art Nouveau” does not cease to excite the public with his brilliant works."The pi..

The painting of one of the most famous artists in the history of Polish art, stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw after the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, finally returned to their h..

The Supreme Court of Appeal of France rejected the lawsuit of the American couple, who demanded to recognize their rights to the impressionist painting Camille Pissarro. The scene "Pea Harvest" was bo..

The painting “Harmony (Estimated Self-Portrait)” by the Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo set a record at the evening sale of works by surrealists and modernists at the Sotheby’s auction house. The pan..

Dozens of works by the pioneering modernist artist Sonia Delaunay are to go under the hammer in Paris. The Ukrainian-born painter was a co-founder of the Orphism movement, which alongside Cubism shook..

A woman has found a painting of the great Leonardo Da Vinci Fiona Maclaren, a resident of Scotland, unexpectedly found herself the owner of a priceless relic.Due to the desperate financial situat..

A letter from two of the most famous artists of the 19th century - Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin- in which they talk about how they visited French brothels, was bought by the Van Gogh museum in ..

Christie’s to Auction $18 M. Wayne Thiebaud Pinball Painting Set to Double Artist’s RecordSince the pandemic shutdown in March, much anticipation has circulated around the leading works coming to resc..

The newfound Portrait of a Lady by Gustav Klimt is due to appear in public soon. The painting was stolen from the Ricci-Oddi gallery in Italian Piacenza in 1997 and was recently found by gardeners in ..

Ivan Marchuk – was born on 12th of May, 1936 in the Moskalivka village, Ternopil region. After graduating from the seven-year school he entered the Ivan Trush Lviv School of Applied Arts, where he ..

Brexit contributes to 10% drop in sales at Sotheby’s in first half of 2019A lack of consignments in London, partly caused by “Brexit-related uncertainties”, was one of the main reasons Sotheby's sa..

The Old Guitarist was created by Pablo Picasso in 1903 while he was living in Spain during what would be later referred to as his Blue Period. This period was hallmarked by almost universal use of a m..