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 ...
Dec 11th, 2025 - Picture: Colnaghi Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The dealers Colnaghi opened a new selling exhibition at their Brussels branch yesterday entitled Northern Lights: Masterpieces of Flemish Caravaggism . It will run until 30th January 2026. According to their website: The exhibition brings together works by minds such as Matthias Stom, Hendrick de Somer, Abraham Janssens, and Jan van Dalem; artists whose careers unfolded across Rome, Naples, Antwerp, and Brussels. Among the works on view is a ...
Dec 10th, 2025 - Their paintings might look like greeting cards from a nursing home, but the Impressionists were 19th century punk rockers. They upended the establishment by presenting what was viewed as rough, unfinished artwork by upstarts bent on subverting tradition. And when the conservative Académie des Beaux-Arts rejected them, this ragtag group of starving artists, including Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro , Edgar Degas , Paul Cézanne and Berthe Morisot , among ...
Dec 10th, 2025 - On Wednesday, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston announced that photographer and visual artist Lorna Simpson will receive the second annual Meraki Artist Award. The award, which was created last year , grants $100,000 to a woman artist to recognize innovative work in the fine arts. The award is funded by collector Fotene Demoulas, and will be awarded annually at least until 2035. Simpson will appear at the ICA's annual Women's Luncheon next April to accept the award. "It is a joy to ...
Dec 8th, 2025 - Sotheby's reported unprecedented attendance last month for its record-shattering $1.173 billion marquee week sales —with queues circling the block from the moment its new Breuer Building headquarters opened on November 8 and more than 25,000 visitors passing through in just over a week. The auction house has, it seems, secured a new level of widespread popularity, drawing audiences beyond the usual art-world crowd Now, " Icons: Back to Madison " is bringing together some of the most ...
Dec 4th, 2025 - Following a multi-million-dollar marquee auction week and e arly sales at Untitled and NADA Miami —both making a case for cautious optimism—all eyes were on Art Basel 's VIP opening on December 3. Despite the early line at the oceanside entrance, the atmosphere by 11 a.m. was noticeably more subdued and the crowd less international than the one at the opening of Art Basel Paris just two months earlier. Still, as the only Art Basel in the Americas, the fair continues to draw some of ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
