The 17th-century painting The Taking of Christ by Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Caravaggio, stolen from a Ukrainian museum in 2008, has been found in Berlin, Die Welt reported on Monday. The masterpiece, also known as the Kiss of Judas, was stolen from the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art in southern Ukrainian city of [...]
One of Monet’s celebrated water-lily paintings is to be auctioned in London for a price expected to reach up to $60 Million. The painting – dating back a century and from his most famous series of works – will be part of the most valuable art auction yet to take place in the city later [...]
Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women’s deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, died Monday, her studio’s managing director said. She was 98. Bourgeois had continued creating artwork – her latest pieces were finished just last week – before suffering a heart attack Saturday night, said the studio [...]
Canadian artist Alex McLeod may live in Toronto but his presence in the art world is international in scope. Having successfully completed a series of gallery exhibits which attracted the attention of art curators from the US, Europe and South America, Alex is now booked solid for the next six months with exhibits in Denver [...]
A lone thief stole five paintings possibly worth $600 Million, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist at a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said Thursday. The paintings disappeared early Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art, across the Seine River from the Eiffel Tower. Investigators have [...]
Banksy’s identity is a mystery, yet his work is unmistakable. Several bold and graphic statements popped up in Toronto over the weekend, indicating that the British shock artist has made his Canadian debut. A publicist confirmed that Banksy has indeed been at work in Toronto. But not everyone is happy about Banksy’s trot through town: [...]
An Andy Warhol work sold by designer Tom Ford has fetched more than $32 million at auction. During the spring art auctions, Sotheby’s sold $190 million in post-war and contemporary art. By comparison, the same auction a year ago reached only $47 million. Only three of the 53 lots on offer went unsold at the [...]
A celebrated painting by Jasper Johns which hung for most of its life in the bedroom of writer Michael Crichton has fetched nearly $29 Million at auction, a record for the artist. Flag, a pop art depiction of the Stars and Stripes, was one of 31 pieces to be auctioned by Christie’s in New York [...]
A Manet painting, described as one of the greatest self-portraits in art history, is expected to fetch up to $45 Million at auction. Self-Portrait With A Palette is one of just two existing works that Edouard Manet, the father of Impressionism, painted of himself. The image was painted in 1878, when Manet, who mentored a [...]
A portrait of a young woman, which had been dismissed as a fake Raphael and lay forgotten in the basement of an Italian palace for 40 years, has been confirmed as genuine by art experts and could be worth up to $37 Million. The newly-discovered 12 by 16 inch oil painting was long thought to [...]
Christie’s is being sued over a picture that it sold for $21,850 (£14,500) as a 19th century German work, but is now claimed to be a Leonardo da Vinci worth $160 Million (£100 million). In 1998 the picture, in chalk, pen and ink on vellum, was sold by Christie’s in New York for $21,850 (£14,500), [...]
A painting that Picasso created in a single day in March 1932, “Nu au Plateau de Sculpteur (Nude, Green Leaves and Bust),” sold for $106.5 million, a world record auction price for a work of art, at Christie’s Tuesday night. The painting, more than 5 feet by 4 feet, shows Picasso’s mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, both [...]
A treasure trove of paintings, prints, books and drawings by some of the 20th century’s greatest artists is to be sold after being stored largely unseen for 70 years. The works by artists such as Picasso, Derain, Cézanne, Gauguin and Renoir are being collected as the “Tresors du Coffre Vollard”. They represent a remarkable story [...]
Pablo Picasso fans, rejoice. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will soon be exhibiting its complete holdings of the Spanish artist’s paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, plus 200 works on paper. And auction powerhouses Sotheby’s and Christie’s are offering two rare Picassos in early May not seen on the art market in decades. One could surpass [...]
A selection of Chinese imperial works of art has smashed world auction records after fierce bidding at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong. An imperial white jade seal commissioned by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century was sold to an Asian buyer for US$12.29 million breaking the world auction record for both white [...]
A painting of the notorious bank robber Ned Kelly has become the most expensive piece of Australian art ever sold, fetching $5.4 Million (£ 3.3 million) at an auction in Sydney. “The First Class Marksman” was painted in 1946 by Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) and shows the infamous outlaw standing on a dusty outback road, rifle [...]
He’s the most successful graffitist ever, the elusive outsider who has become the UK’s unlikeliest national treasure. Now we are about to glimpse him in ‘the world’s first street-art disaster movie’ Whether it is policemen kissing, a House of Commons full of chimpanzees, Princess Diana on a £10 note, or I Don’t Believe in Global [...]
There are long lines outside the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, where a landmark exhibition of paintings by Caravaggio (1571-1610) has opened to mark the 400th anniversary of the artist’s death. The show is billed as a first-time gathering of authenticated masterpieces by the Italian painter, whose deep emotionalism, naturalism and dramatic use of light helped [...]
The only known painting from life showing Admiral Lord Nelson in the company of his mistress, Lady Emma Hamilton, has surfaced at auction after 210 years. The newly-discovered watercolor depicts the couple sitting side by side in a barge on the fringes of the Mediterranean in 1800 – five years before Nelson’s death in glorious [...]
When Dirk Hannema declared he had discovered a previously unknown Van Gogh painting in 1975, he became the laughing stock of the art world. The museum curator was well-known for his tall tales in the Dutch art community and was widely mocked for filling his personal collection with forgeries. “This discovery is not an attribution [...]
At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Renoir in the 20th Century” seeks to overturn conventional wisdom. Here’s the contested rap on Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Following success at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, when he was 33, plus another decade’s worth of heady achievement, his paintings went steadily downhill. After his death in 1919, [...]
At first glance, it looks like any typical art collection on display at London’s famous Victoria and Albert Museum. But what makes this exhibition unique is that all the featured artworks are fakes and most of the artists on display have served time in jail. Curated by the Metropolitan Police, the exhibit showcases everything from [...]
The Los Angeles museum said it would appeal the decision to Italy’s highest court and would “vigorously defend” its right to keep the bronze. The “Victorious Youth” statue, which dates from 300-100BC, was pulled from the sea by Italian fishermen in 1964 off the eastern town of Fano, near Pesaro. The Italian government, which has [...]
The life and work of Nat Finkelstein – court photographer at Andy Warhol’s Factory. In the Sixties the beautiful and the damned flocked to hang out at the Factory — and be photographed by Nat Finkelstein. Whoever heard of a celebrity that nobody knows? When Andy Warhol met the photographer Nat Finkelstein in 1964, he [...]
A life-size bronze sculpture of a man by Alberto Giacometti has been sold at a London auction for 65 million pounds ($104 Million). Sotheby’s says the sale set a world record as the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. The auction house said Wednesday it took just eight minutes for bidders to [...]
Two paintings by Pablo Picasso and a third by Henri Matisse were among works auctioned off Tuesday at Christie’s, including “Jacqueline,” a Picasso not seen publicly since 1967. The 1963 work is a portrait of Picasso’s second wife, whom he married in 1961, Christie’s said. The painting — “Tete de femme” is its French name [...]
Among other things Lucian Freud is a reformed brawler, a quintessential Londoner, a recluse, a workaholic, a survivor and the greatest portrait painter of his generation. All of which makes this newly rediscovered Self-Portrait with a Black Eye something of an emblematic work: a breathtaking painting, made straight after a fight with a London taxi [...]
A previously unseen painting by Marc Chagall is to go on display after it was acquired by a small London gallery. The Ben Uri London Jewish Museum of Art bought the work, titled Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio, for a bargain £26,000 ($42,000) at an auction in Paris last year. The gallery bought the work in [...]
An artwork by Impressionist artist Edgar Degas has been stolen from a Marseilles museum, police have said. Les Choristes (The Chorus) was missing when staff at the Catini Museum opened the premises on Thursday morning. There were no signs of a break-in, said Jacques Dallest, the French city’s public prosecutor. Local police originally said that [...]
The mystery telephone bidder who paid a record $33 Million for a Rembrandt painting described as one of the Dutch artist’s greatest masterpieces was named yesterday as Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas casino owner. Wynn, 67, who once accidentally put his elbow through a Picasso while showing it off to friends, is estimated by Forbes [...]
Who the lady with the determined chin is, why the most famous painter of her day never finished her portrait, and where she has been hanging for most of the last 400 years, remain mysterious – but she is now valued at up to $10 Million, as a previously unrecorded work by Rubens. “It’s a [...]
Andy Warhol artwork 200 U.S. One Dollar Bills sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $43.8 Million, the second highest auction price for a work by the pop artist. The 1962 silk screen print, which shows 200 life-sized images of U.S. dollar bills, had a pre-sale estimate of $8 Million to $12 Million at Sotheby’s. [...]
Down a back alley in Soho, in the middle of London’s theater district, the gallery owner Paul Jones is showing recent paintings by Adam Neate, a former street artist, in a space converted from a set-painting workshop, the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms. Stars like Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel used to come here to prepare [...]
A portrait of a young woman thought to be created by a 19th century German artist and sold two years ago for about $19,000 is now being attributed by art experts to Leonardo da Vinci and valued at more than $150 million. The unsigned chalk, ink and pencil drawing, known as “La Bella Principessa,” was [...]
Visitors view the loricae of Emperor Yongzheng during the exhibition about Emperor Yongzheng (1678-1735) of the Qing Dynasty in Taipei, southeast China’s Taiwan Province, Oct. 9, 2009. The exhibition kicked off in Taipei on Wednesday, in which a total of 246 items, including 37 items of the royal collections from the Palace Museum in Beijing [...]
The most anticipated Asian Contemporary Art Fair will be here once again to set the visual art scene ablaze over four days from 9 – 12 October 2009 at Suntec Singapore. The best art galleries from Asia and beyond will be showcasing millions worth of artworks ranging from painting, drawing, sculptures, installations, photographs, and digital art, [...]
Young British wildlife photographer, under 18 category winner: Red squirrel, Kielder forest, Northumberland, by Will Nicholls. Grand Prize Winner: Ross Hoddinott, for his image entitled: “Damselfly silhouette.” Sue Herdman, Judge and Editor of the National Trust Magazine, said, “We were looking for a winning image that stood out as the most memorable and striking. Almost [...]
The year was 1968 and as revolutionary fervour spread around the world a group of students stormed the president’s office at Columbia University in New York. Fortunately these were sensible Ivy League radicals and their iconoclasm had its limits. Before things got out of hand they allowed two police officers in to remove the magnificent [...]
The name Tiffany is synonymous with the finest in jewelry. But a visit to an exhibition at theLuxembourg Museum devoted to Louis Comfort Tiffany is like standing inside a jewel box – without a jewel in sight. The son of the founder of the famed New York jewelry icon preferred to work with glass. These [...]
Toronto’s Angell Gallery is presenting the amazing art of Toronto based digital artist Alex McLeod. The exhibition runs from August 8th to August 29th.
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