Dec 23rd, 2025 - Picture: Christie's Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: Christie's New York have uploaded their upcoming Old Masters sale online. The auction will take place on 4th February 2026. The highlights include the aforementioned $30m Canaletto , a Botticelli & Studio Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist at $4m - $6m, a Self Portrait by Artemisia Gentileschi at $2.5m - $3.5m, Chardin's The Diligent Mother an impressive Magdalene by Pieter Coeke van Aelst I at $500k - $800k.
Dec 22nd, 2025 - One cold Oslo morning in mid-November, the kind where each hour of daylight is a gift and the air chills any optimistic thought of lingering outside, the opening of " Deviant Ornaments " at the National Museum of Norway marked a significant shift. Installed in one of the most prominent institutions in the Nordic countries, the exhibition explores queer experiences in the Islamic world, a topic often considered too delicate and politically charged for museum spaces. "It started with the Queer ...
Dec 22nd, 2025 - The Baden-born artist, known for addressing the trauma of the Holocaust, was a founding member of the influential Galerie nächst St Stephan Arnulf Rainer, a leading figure of the Austrian avant-garde whose gestural paintings confronted the atrocities of the Holocaust and Hiroshima and whose unflinching approach to experimental self-portraiture made him instantly recognisable, has died aged 96; his death on 18 December was confirmed by his gallery Thaddaeus Ropac who described him as one of ...
Dec 20th, 2025 - Two years after Mickalene Thomas's first visit to Paris in 2009, she returned for a residency at Giverny, the well-known home and garden of Claude Monet, where she was deeply drawn to the interior and exterior worlds he created. Now, with her solo exhibition "All About Love," at the Grand Palais, visitors can experience her own worlds transposed into immersive spaces filled with furniture, stacks of books and Jet magazines, arrangements of potted plants, and still-life vignettes in which every ...
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 21st, 2025 - Years later, inspired by Vincent's paintings, the French artist became a "wild beast" In 1899, Matisse, then a 29-year-old struggling artist, discovered Van Gogh's work at Ambroise Vollard's gallery in Paris. He fell in love with L'Arlesienne and wanted to buy the portrait of the woman of Arles, which was being offered for just 150 francs (then equivalent to £6). But the impoverished painter still found it a challenge to raise the money. More than four decades later Matisse recalled what ...
Mar 19th, 2025 - Works acquired by the US's National Gallery of Art, the Menil Collection in Houston and Oxford's Christ Church Manfred Heiting Library National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Manfred Heiting's lifelong passion for photography and photobooks began in the 1960s, when he met Ansel Adams while working as a young art director. The German designer and scholar built an encyclopaedic photobook library, which was devastated in 2018 by California wildfires that claimed 20,000 items in his Malibu home. ...
