"Watch highlights of the bidding battles that broke the auction record for Wassily Kandinsky, not once, but twice, in Sotheby’s June 2017 Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London. The…
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"When this painting by Jan Sanders Van Hemessen arrived at Sotheby’s, specialists had trouble identifying the strangely dressed sitter. In this episode of The Costumist, Jonquil O’Reilly…
"A friend of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and other great contemporary artists, Roy Newell is firmly rooted in the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, but his name is largely unknown…
"Experience J.M.W. Turner’s celebrated masterpiece, Ehrenbreitstein, in a stunning new way. CGI animation takes you on a journey through the magisterial landscape as legendary English actor Steven…
"Discover how Joan Miró was inspired by the landscape of a French coastal town to create one of the most ground breaking contributions to modern art. Miró’s fabled Constellations series has been…
"Wassily Kandinsky painted BILD MIT WEISSEN LINIEN in 1913—a year that is widely recognized as one of the most important in the development of modern art. During this year, Kandinsky created the…
"MURNAU - LANDSCHAFT MIT GRÜNEM HAUS from 1909 represents the height of Wassily Kandinsky’s expressionist moment, shortly before the artist abandoned figuration entirely and brought full…
"Watch beautiful Old Master paintings come to life through amazing morphing animation. The portraits of rulers, reformers, gentlemen and fools, by artists including Lucas Cranach the Elder, Jacopo…
LOS ANGELES – The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today the most important acquisition in the history of the Museum’s Department of Drawings. Acquired as a group from a British private collection,…
Opening this fall on October 7, The Phillips Collection presents an exceptional exhibition inspired by the museum’s celebrated Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–81) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.…
This weekend saw a bidding jamboree in our two-day, two-session auction on July 8-9. The sale focused predominately on American Furniture and Fine Arts with exceptional results and record-breaking…
Combining art, fashion, science, and conservation, the revelatory exhibition Fragonard: The Fantasy Figures brings together—for the first time—a newly…
In the second half of the 19th century, advances in physics, electromagnetic radiation theory, and the optical sciences provoked new thought about the physical as well as the spiritual worlds.…
For the first time, the auction for Asian art was offered in two parts this year. The first part of Indian, South East Asian and Japanese art took place on 9 June in Cologne, whilst the second…
Michaan's June 9 auction of Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Arts was led by important Russian paintings from a private collection in Carmel, CA. Highlights included "Wooded Clearing" (Lot 3143…
