Articles about Painting in the category of Art

Discover the art and legacy of three women who revolutionised painting in the 18th century.

A Rembrandt painting that was estimated at just €15,000 two years ago at auction is now offered at Sotheby's upcoming sale with a £15 million price tag.

Over the past weekend, the Cologne auction house Lempertz set a new record price for Wilhelm Leibl, a significant figure in Realism.

The auction house set new records for artists Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Mitchell, and Arshile Gorky in a single evening.

Following the recent addition of 'Kitchen Cimabue' to the Louvre collection last week, the French museum is now merely €1.3 million short of acquiring Jean Siméon Chardin's renowned still life. They have issued a call for public funding.

At the highest stratosphere of the auction market, 12 paintings have each sold for over $100 million. From works by Picasso to the famous da Vinci, here are the most expensive paintings ever sold at auction.

Sotheby's November auction of Emily Fisher Landau's estate just recorded the most expensive sale of the year with a $139.4 million Picasso portrait, as well as a new record for Agnes Martin.

Yesterday morning, Just Stop Oil activists targeted Diego Velázquez's famous nude masterpiece, which was smashed with hammers at London's National Gallery.

Cimabue's 'Christ Mocked', which was rediscovered in a French kitchen and sold at auction for £21 million in 2019, has now been acquired by the Louvre and will remain in France.

One of Sweden's most prominent artists invites you to dance in this masterful composition from 1924. Next week, 'Peasant Wedding' will make its auction debut with an impressive estimate.

The model for Manet's famous Olympia was also a painter herself. Now one of her works goes to auction in France.

Six artworks that had been taken from a Dutch town hall in September were returned to famed art detective Arthur Brand.

The discovery reveals new insights into the famous Renaissance painter's working methods and his willingness to experiment.

The avant-garde German artist found his greatest inspiration in the prehistoric period: the cave paintings of the Ice Age.

This was the single painting Kahlo made of her sister, Cristina, who went on to have a devastating affair with Kahlo's husband, Diego Rivera. It heads to auction next month as part of the collection of music executive Jerry Moss.

In November, a never-before-seen masterpiece by Claude Monet will go under the hammer in New York for the first time.

It is the second time that the renowned auction house has sold the painting, which was inspired by the Mona Lisa.

The work of art in the Royal Collection had spent the past 160 years in Henry VIII's favourite castle with incorrect attribution.

The highlight of the major November auction is a stunning Picasso portrait estimated at $120 million.

Arthur Brand, the Dutch art detective also known as the 'Indiana Jones of the art world', was able to recover a work by Vincent van Gogh that had been stolen from a museum over three years ago.

The allure of faraway lands and a good dose of irony: these were the ingredients for the 'singerie' trend of depicting monkeys imitating humans, which caused a sensation in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The National Gallery in Berlin has been gifted with a painting that was long thought to be lost.

Discovered in a junk shop a few years ago for $4, an original work by American painter NC Wyeth goes to auction at Bonhams Skinner this month with a six-figure estimate.

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness is arguably the Renaissance master's most emotional and psychologically gripping work. Here's what to know about the masterpiece that da Vinci never completed.