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A 1922 painting by Piet Mondrian fetched $47.6 million at auction, becoming the Dutch artist’s third highest-selling work. Titled Composition With Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow ...
A painting by South African artist Marlene Dumas has sold for $13.6 million at auction, setting a new record for a living female artist. “Miss January” is Dumas’ “magnum opus” and stands ...
A painting once hailed as Paul Gauguin’s final self-portrait is now under renewed scrutiny after an amateur art sleuth raised doubts about its authenticity—sparking a fresh scientific ...
A rare painting by LS Lowry originally bought for £10 has sold at auction for more than £800,000. The painting, Going To The Mill, was bought by literary editor of the Manchester Guardian ...
A painting by American artist Mark Rothko, valued at up to €50 million, has been damaged by a child at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. A painting by Mark Rothko has been damaged ...
A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child. Conservators will now ...
The J. Paul Getty Museum has acquired a painting by Luis de Morales (1505-86)—the Spanish Renaissance artist referred to by some early sources as “El Divino”—that recently underwent ...
“Unlike Charlotte and Branwell, Emily left few drafts, few exercises, to tell the story of her apprenticeship in painting”, Jane Sellars and Christine Alexander wrote in their 1995 book “The ...
The panel, which investigates claims for Nazi-looted art in UK public collections, decided the painting was “looted as an act of racial persecution”. Hartveld left the painting behind when he ...
Tate Britain is set to return a 17th century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector. The work by Henry Gibbs, titled Aeneas And His Family Fleeing Burning Troy, was taken from ...
The painting depicts scenes from Virgil's epic Latin poem the Aeneid Tate Britain is set to return a 17th Century painting to the family of a Jewish Belgian art collector, after it was taken from ...