The painting is as dazzling as it is unsettling, not only by virtue of its monumental size (8' 2 1/2" x 11' 5 7/8") but also its boisterous colors and panoramic view of figures in motion. As your gaze ...

SBI Art Auction is gearing up to stage its Modern Legacy and Bloom Now sales, bringing together a range of modern and ...

THE French nation has led the world in many movements tending to establish exalted ideals and to uplift mankind ; but at no time in its history have its aims and efforts been more noble or more ...

It has become fashionable to say that painters are returning to realism. Such talk is almost always accompanied by skeptical remarks about difficult or obscure art and observations on the bankruptcy ...

Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

Francisco Goitia, “Zacatecas Landscape with Hanged Men I” (c. 1914) (courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art) Ironically, several artists who created celebrated images of the Mexican Revolution did ...

It is very uncommon for Mondrian’s artworks from his mature period in the 1920 and 1930s to go up for auction. They are usually housed in museum collections, given their significance to the ...

The decadelong quest included archive detectives, location mix-ups, vintage postcards and a coveted art collection torn apart by war. When it was done, the Museum of Modern Art decided to return an ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

Brown likely could have gone on painting commercially successful works in the same vein (one graced the cover of the influential Artforum magazine in 1963). Despite the monthly stipend at stake she ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An art handler views Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Gustav Klimt during a press preview at Sotheby’s in New York City on Nov. 7.

A GOOD model, badly posed, lends itself to very awkward studies, and does not instruct the eye as it should. French art is a subject that for a long time has been badly posed before Americans. Those ...