Dec 17th, 2025 - The Buenos Aires museum has acquired the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection and is planning an expansion to accommodate its new holdings The Argentine real-estate developer and collector Eduardo F. Costantini has acquired the entire Daros Latinamerica Collection in an unprecedented move. Costantini will add the 1,233 works by 117 artists (previously housed in Zurich) to the collection of his Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (Malba), a leading South American museum. Plans for an ...
Dec 11th, 2025 - Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Henri Matisse's grandson, has gifted seven paintings, one sculpture, 28 drawings and eight etchings to the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris Barbara Dauphin Duthuit, the wife of Henri Matisse's grandson, has donated 61 works by Matisse to the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. Most of the works were shown in the exhibition Matisse and Marguerite: Through Her Father's Eyes which launched at the museum earlier this year. Dauphin Duthuit was ...
Nov 20th, 2025 - A self-portrait by legendary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (la cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — breaks the previous record in this category, set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1," sold for $44.4 million in 2014. Kahlo's ...
Nov 13th, 2025 - From the Mona Lisa to the American Gothic, these famous paintings don't just grace museum walls; they offer a glimpse into the past and define entire generations. Although most of these masterpieces are centuries old, they continue to fascinate art buffs and collectors alike, with each piece telling a captivating story. Whether they're on display for the whole world to see or hidden behind closed doors, these paintings prove that art has the power to create and sometimes, even change history. ...
Oct 27th, 2025 - The momentum in Paris generated last week by Art Basel—and the strong sales and dynamic activity across all the fairs—culminated in the Paris evening auctions, where results exceeded estimates and expectations at both Christie's and Sotheby's. Buyers who seemed hesitant in the days leading up to the art weeks regained confidence after seeing the positive results in London. "They called back, asking for guarantees or pre-auction bids," Alessandro Diotallevi told Observer ahead of the ...
Oct 18th, 2025 - Morgan Library & Museum, New York Famed impressionist painter's lesser-seen drawings are the focus of a major new exhibition that invites us into the stages of his artistic process is luminous colours and sensual brushwork adorn countless mugs, posters and tote bags as well as blockbuster exhibitions . But the commodification of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and his fellow impressionist painters has been missing something. Renoir was an accomplished draftsman who produced a distinguished but largely ...
Sep 16th, 2025 - With Sotheby's landing the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection and the Pritzkers' modern masterpieces, and Christie's securing the Weis and Wynn estates, November's sales may yet rescue the slumping auction market. It has become clearer in these past few years that the real battle between auction houses isn't about results but in the race for consignments. Yesterday, Sotheby's landed a knockout: the $400 million Leonard A. Lauder Collection , set to hit the rostrum during November's New ...
Apr 11th, 2025 - Eugène Boudin at the Musée Marmottan Monet Video: Musée Marmottan Monet Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: have just this week opened a new exhibition dedicated to Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) drawn in-part from a single private collection. According to their website: Collector Yann Guyonwarc'h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist's career is ...
Mar 19th, 2025 - His 'Sunflowers' painting does not make the list—and there are other surprises too Van Gogh's pictures only occasionally come onto the market and, not surprisingly, they fetch huge sums. The odd one is sold privately through a dealer, usually very discreetly—but in a typical year less than a handful are publicly auctioned. Here we record the ten most expensive Van Gogh paintings that have sold at auction, all at over $50m. 10. Fields near Les Alpilles , $52m, 2022 Fields near ...
