The cost is on top of the almost £2,500 spent on repairs to the painting, which were carried out by a professional conservator.

Before the presentation of "Portrait of a Lady" on Wednesday in the Argentine coastal city of Mar del Plata, the painting had not been seen publicly in 80 years.

"Portrait of a Lady" belonged to prominent Jewish art collector Jacques Goudstikker before it was stolen during World War II.

Patricia Kadgien faces charges for allegedly concealing a $50,000 Giuseppe Ghislandi portrait stolen from a Dutch-Jewish art collector during World War II.

A portrait by Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera has sold at auction for more than 20 times its estimate, fetching over £500,000. The sum is a world record for a work by Carriera, who died in 1757, according to Cheffins auctioneers in Cambridge.

A self-portrait by Frida Kahlo could set records when it is sold at auction in November. “El sueño (La cama)” has an estimated price of $40 to $60 million.

For the first time in nearly 30 years, a painting by the renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo will be on display in New York City before it goes up for sale, Sotheby’s confirmed to PIX11 News on Thursday.

Pablo Picasso created his masterpiece, Guernica, in his Paris studio in 1937. When the Nazis invaded the city three years later, he kept working. In the midst of the occupation, he painted a melancholy portrait of Dora Maar,

The New York institution has supported the claim by pointing to the composition of Nicolaes Maes’s ‘The Naughty Drummer’

His blonde hair already parted far to the side, a 20-year-old Andy Warhol thrusts a finger up his protuberant nostril, revealing the wrangling of defiance and precarity that imbued his tangled personal life and illustrious career. We encounter his ...