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 ...

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.

"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 ...