Picasso Blue Period Painting Achieves Record Price At Sotheby’s
A record price has been achieved for a blue period Picasso at Sotheby’s in New York. La Gommeuse, painted in Paris in… Read More
8 November 2015
A record price has been achieved for a blue period Picasso at Sotheby’s in New York. La Gommeuse, painted in Paris in… Read More
8 November 2015
So, I was about to launch into thoughtful musings on that inexplicable relationship between artist and muse and how the… Read More
24 July 2015
Christie’s Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 23 June will present a further selection of 52 highly covetable works to inspire collectors… Read More
3 June 2015
The unique relationship between Pablo Picasso and the iconic photographer Lee Miller is explored in a stunning new exhibition at… Read More
26 May 2015
A painting from the 1950s by the 20th century master Pablo Picasso entitled Women of Algiers has become the most… Read More
12 May 2015
The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts presents ‘Francis Bacon and the Masters’, the latest exhibition bringing together over twenty-five major… Read More
1 May 2015
The Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts presents ‘Francis Bacon and the Masters’, the latest exhibition of works by the renowned… Read More
25 April 2015
Francis Bacon and the Masters is the latest exhibition of works by the late-great British painter, bringing together over twenty-five… Read More
22 April 2015
A retired electrician and his wife have been convicted of concealing 271 stolen artworks by Pablo Picasso worth up to… Read More
21 March 2015
A sale of Important Ceramics by Pablo Picasso (Sotheby’s 18 March) has scuppered the master’s original intentions behind creating multiples…. Read More
21 March 2015
Modern art masterpieces from The Samuel Goldwyn family Collection will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s, in a series of… Read More
19 March 2015
Francis Bacon and the Masters is a groundbreaking exhibition bringing together over twenty-five major works by Francis Bacon with old… Read More
19 March 2015
The trial opened yesterday of the former handyman of the artist Pablo Picasso and his wife in Paris. They are… Read More
11 February 2015
Three people in the cities of Zaragoza and Tarragona have been arrested for trying to sell fake Joan Miró, Pablo… Read More
20 January 2015
A new exhibition bringing together works from the well documented Lucerne auction in 1939 has been mounted in Liège. On… Read More
8 December 2014
The International news photographer René Burri has died age 81. Burri studied at the School of Applied Arts in his native city of Zurich
20 October 2014
Masterpieces belonging to the former first lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos have been seized by government authorities, who claim… Read More
1 October 2014
Cornelius Gurlitt the son of a notorious Nazi art dealer whose secret collection included many Third Reich looted pieces, has died in Germany age 81.
6 May 2014
Cornelius Gurlitt, the elderly son of a Nazi era art dealer has come to a co-operative agreement with German authorities to resolve
8 April 2014
The authorities in Germany are considering amending laws to allow victims of art looted by the Nazis to reclaim their… Read More
16 February 2014
Sotheby’s has reported a 100% sales result for the collection of the art dealer Jan Krugier. The Combined Total of… Read More
6 February 2014
Damien Hirst is a Turner Prize winning artist. Despite his critical notoriety (much of it negative) he has managed to… Read More
30 November 2013
The German tax authorities who seized an art collection worth $100m have published a further 100 works of art online… Read More
29 November 2013
It has now been revealed that Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels sold 200 masterpieces to the art dealer Hildebrand Gurlitt… Read More
12 November 2013
An Impressionist and Modern art sale at Sotheby’s in New York has raised more than $290m (£180m) This is the… Read More
7 November 2013
An A-list collection of Cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque and Leger has been gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of art… Read More
10 April 2013
One of the most iconic Picasso ‘Blue Period’ paintings which has been in Britain for over 85 years is about… Read More
11 March 2013
A new exhibition of paintings by Richard Prince, his first exhibition in London since his ‘Continuation’ retrospective at the Serpentine… Read More
23 January 2013
PAD London has reported a resounding success for its 6th edition. The fair has been highly regarded as ‘The Best’… Read More
16 October 2012
An Important 1901 Blue Period Picasso painting has had a temporary export ban slapped on it, in an attempt to… Read More
17 August 2012
Damien Hirst said yesterday, ‘The Stone Roses are more important than Picasso.’ Would Picasso have said that Frank Sinatra was… Read More
28 June 2012
Before last night the price of $86.3 million, paid for Francis Bacon’s ‘Triptych’, 1976, in 2008 was the most expensive… Read More
9 May 2012