Christie’s is adding blockbuster works by Andy Warhol and René Magritte to its marquee sale of 20th-century art in New ... Francis Bacon’s Figure in Movement, with an estimate of at least ...

Figure in Movement, a 1976 painting by Francis ... With the news, Christie’s lineup of major works for its series of major 20th-century and 21st-century sales is beginning to take shape.

His creative genius is beyond dispute: here was a man who spent 70 years finding ever more radical ways of depicting the human figure ... artist who defines the 20th century, who represents ...

Social attitudes have radically transformed how we idealize the male figure ... paintings depicting nude males has gradually grown over the past seven centuries, and particularly after the 20th ...

As Pearlstein’s paintings and ceramics ... made a contribution to humanism in 20th century painting,” Pearlstein continued. “I rescued the human figure from its tormented, agonized condition ...

The blue-skinned figure ... to the 20th century. The pichwai (from the Hindi word for “behind”) is a central element of the Hindu Pushtimarg tradition. These often-monumental paintings ...

"The Private Nude," explores intimate and personal depictions of the nude figure in private settings. This section looks at what’s happening in paintings from the early 20th century ...