Impressionism & Modern Art
NEW YORK — Edvard Munch’s angst-filled masterpiece "The Scream" rocketed to a record $119,922,500 at Sotheby’s Wednesday evening. The 1895 pastel, expected to fetch in excess of $80 million, became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction and the...
Melbourne, Australia born artist Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) is the new queen of the Grosvenor school print market after one of her works set a new record for a Grosvenor school print at a Bonhams auction held in London on the 17th of April.A copy of Spowers’...
Italian painter Domenico Gnoli was just 36 when he died in New York in 1970, but at that point the artist had already been famous for 17 years. The son of art historian Umberto Gnoli and ceramicist Annie de Garon, Gnoli was first...
WHAT: "André Masson, The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks From 1925 to 1945"WHEN: April 27-June 5, 10am-6pmWHERE: Blain|Di Donna, 981 Madison Avenue (in the Carlyle Hotel), New YorkWHY THIS SHOW MATTERS: Surrealism is having a moment in...
Picasso once ruffled a lot of aesthetic feathers by using Cubism to break up the traditional picture plane into a mess of fractured pieces, rearranging facial features, and painting people who didn’t look like people. The shock value the work once had, though...
“Animal Beauty,” on view at Paris’s Grand Palais through July 16, is a menagerie of 120 animal-themed artworks from the Renaissance to the contemporary era. With a crowd-pleasing focus, the show aims to bring together lesser-known artists alongside big names...
He was Salvador Dali's secretary, advisor, accountant, driver, bodyguard, confidant, and best friend. Enrique Sabater's duties could range from negotiating the artist's payments to running out to buy moustache wax, and he has called the time he spent in Dali'...
It could be the plot of an Indiana Jones movie: A Viennese art historian believes he has discovered a looted art collection buried in the mountains of Germany — one that includes masterpieces by Monet, Cezanne, and Manet. This May, Burkhart List, 62, will...
It's been a long time in the making. Now, through July 1, the Musée Marmottan Monet is celebrating the work of Berthe Morisot, the major female figure of the Impressionist movement, through a rich collection of paintings, pastels, sketches, furnishings, and...
The plot has thickened in the ongoing forgery scandal engulfing the once-blue chip Knoedler Gallery. Yesterday, the now-defunct Upper East Side gallery and its former director, Ann Freedman, were slapped with a $25 million lawsuit from a couple that believes...
