Apr 25th, 2024 - Picture: liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool has been allocated two paintings by Monet and Degas as part of the Acceptance in Lieu scheme. The Epte in Giverny (1884), by Claude Monet (pictured), and Modiste Decorating a Hat  (1891-1895), a pastel by Edgar Degas, will be on display in the gallery from this weekend onwards. According to the museum's press release: Kate O'Donoghue, Curator of International Fine Art at National Museums ...

Apr 25th, 2024 - This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the 19th-century art style defined by strong brushstrokes and ordinary subjects in open-air settings. To mark the occasion, Sotheby's is auctioning one of Claude Monet 's atmospheric haystacks—a favored motif of the artist and an iconic image in the art movement. Painted in 1893, Monet's Meules à Giverny will be sold next month with an estimate above $30 million. "With his haystacks, the revolutionary ideas and techniques that ...

Apr 24th, 2024 - A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century has sold for $32 million – the bottom end of its pre-auction estimate. The "Portrait of Fräulein Lieser," thought to be one of the Austrian painter's final works, created huge excitement in the art world, but it ended up selling at the lower end of its valuation of €30 million-€50 million ($32 million to $53.4 million). Bids started at €28 million and the work went for a hammer price of €30 million. ...

Apr 24th, 2024 - London is a capital city in more ways than one—not only the official capital of the United Kingdom, but also the beating heart of the country's political establishment, its finance and business sectors and even its creative industries from bustling theaters to an internationally-renowned art scene. Many collectors will have attended the annual Frieze London Art Fair and Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition or browsed the renowned graduate art shows at the Royal College of Art, Goldsmiths and ...

Apr 23rd, 2024 - In the early 16th century, the Renaissance master  Michelangelo drew a simple scribble. The pen-and-ink sketch, which is just a few lines, depicts a marble block with the word simile (Italian for "similar") inside. Earlier this month, that 1.8- by 2.6-inch drawing sold at  Christie's for $201,600—more than 30 times its low estimate of $6,000. As Penta 's Casey Farmer reports, the sketch was found attached to the back of another work, A Battle of Giants , by an associate of ...

Apr 22nd, 2024 - Spotlights on Mickalene Thomas, Walter Price, and Raqib Shaw all made our list. " biennial and the Venice Biennale. The daughter of a Lebanese president, she grew up in a freewheeling art scene in Beirut until moving to Paris in 1970, five years before unrest engulfed her homeland. Writing in 2021, Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio   American photographer Tyler Mitchell catapulted to fame photographing Beyoncé for the September issue of in 2018—the first Black artist ...

Apr 21st, 2024 - Visitors queued up at a southern French basilica Sunday to see a rediscovered painting by Italian renaissance painter Raphael. The small portrait of Mary Magdalene is being displayed for a month in the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine basilica, which houses relics of Mary Magdalene — making it Christianity's third most important tomb.  AFP saw around 50 visitors queuing Sunday afternoon to admire this forgotten painting by Raphael, known for painting "Three Graces" and "The School of ...

Apr 19th, 2024 - From pieces that played an influential role in the male-dominated New York School to nature-imbued paintings created in the French countryside, the abstract artwork of Joan Mitchell took on new lives and iterations over a career that spanned more than four decades. Now, four significant works from the American artist's oeuvre will be offered up next month by Sotheby's in its Contemporary Evening Auction. The quartet of paintings dating from 1955 to 1989 come from the same private collection and ...

Apr 11th, 2024 - On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Hosted by the "Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers, etc.," it was founded in response to the Paris Salon, the annual, government-sponsored exhibition that would frequently reject the works of the rising artists. The show, ...

Mar 19th, 2024 - One structured and austere, the other sensual and joyous — Paul Cezanne and Auguste Renoir were two founding fathers of Impressionism, but a new Milan exhibition explores their sharply different styles. Marking 150 years since the founding of the art movement, 52 masterpieces by the two Frenchmen are on loan from Paris for an unprecedented show at the Palazzo Reale — alongside two by Picasso, whom they inspired. The paintings date from the 1870s to the early 20th century. Renoir and ...

Mar 6th, 2024 - Like other shows that have sought to shed new light on artists known to a wide public, such as the Met's " Van Gogh's Cypresses ," "Matisse and the Sea" at the Saint Louis Art Museum illuminates the permanence of the ocean in Matisse's works and how they evolved . Through more than seventy paintings, ceramics and sculptures plus his famous paper cut-outs, Henri Matisse is revealed as not only a visionary but also a disciple and a collector. The exhibition, which considers how Matisse's stays ...

Jan 30th, 2024 - Founded in 1956, Brafa is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious annual art fairs, showing ancient and modern painting, textiles, sculpture, jewelry, silverware and furniture. This year's fair, at the iconic 1930s Brussels Expo buildings (until 4 February) features 132 international galleries from 14 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom. There's plenty ...

Jan 10th, 2024 - MADRID and PARIS — Last year marked 50 years since Picasso's death, and more than 50 major exhibitions around the world have observed the occasion. But the Spaniard's life was long, and it's worth remembering that it's 116 years since he painted "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," which (along with "Guernica" ) is usually cited as his masterpiece. That might make the revelations in a new exhibition in Madrid seem like ancient history. But "Picasso 1906: The Turning Point," at the Reina Sofia ...

Jan 4th, 2024 - Institution in Washington, D.C. is 'both a museum and a megaphone' Museums seldom get the opportunity to reintroduce themselves, show how they've grown or illustrate fresh perspectives. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, D.C., is doing just that since its recent reopening after a two-year closure for renovation and expansion.  "This major renovation has allowed us to reimagine all of our spaces," said director Susan Fisher Sterling, 68. "We've added a Learning ...

Dec 5th, 2023 - For the residency's twelfth year, the Rubell Museum leans into textile art. Miami mega-patrons Don and Mera Rubell like to be thought of as tastemakers in the contemporary art world. Since they began an artist-in-residence program at their private institution, the Rubell Museum, in 2011, their emerging artist resident has been given the prime slot of the December show—timed to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. Among the art world, the spotlight has come to be known as a fast-track to ...

Dec 5th, 2023 - See works on paper from the likes of Degas, Monet and Cézanne. It is little wonder that an art movement like Impressionism, popular for capturing the elusive immediacy of everyday life, would be drawn to drawing. Works on paper, historically relegated to the status of a preparatory sketch, soon became masterpieces in their own right. Emancipated from the formal rigor and slick stylisations of Rococo and Neoclassicist painting, the Impressionists were able to reveal something that felt ...

Nov 30th, 2023 - The 28-page work sees the artist praising the Impressionists and discussing 'haunting visions' The Courtauld Gallery has bought the last literary manuscript by Paul Gauguin remaining in private hands. Written in 1902 on the remote Marquesan island of Hiva Oa in French Polynesia, it is bitter denunciation of critics who do not understand Modern art. It was submitted for publication in the radical journal Mercure de France , but rejected by its editors. Gauguin entitled his French text Racontars ...

Nov 30th, 2023 - Could there be an earlier version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting? Some experts are alleging that a piece depicting a younger version of the sitter could be the original. The Mona Lisa (1503–19) is a Renaissance painting of the Florentine woman Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, by Leonardo da Vinci. The Isleworth Mona Lisa , as it has been dubbed (because it was previously owned by an art dealer in the London suburb), shows Lisa in the ...

Nov 29th, 2023 - The couple will also donate select (as yet unspecified) pieces from their personal holdings to the museum The music industry power duo of Alicia Keys and Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean are set to show selections from their art collection next year at the Brooklyn Museum, before donating "significant works" for the institution's permanent collection. The partnership will be inaugurated with the exhibition Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys (10 February-7 July 2024), ...

Nov 24th, 2023 - The Whitworth's watercolour will be a highlight at the Royal Academy's exhibition Three works by Van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso were stolen from Manchester's Whitworth gallery in the very early hours of 27 April 2003. A day later, following a telephone tip-off, they were recovered at a public lavatory, 200 metres away on the edge of a small park. Twenty years on, no one has been charged over the theft. The thief (or thieves) had seized the works from the gallery walls at night and removed the ...