Tag: painting

Cabin at Sunset (1987), a painting of a pastoral scene under a technicolour sky by the late television art instructor ...

How do you ‘read’ a painting? Can a painting even be read at all? I was invited to discuss this ...

The 2024 French film Auction opens with an elderly blind woman negotiating selling a work of art. “An auctioneer is ...

One of the most valuable commissions at this season’s New York auction-house sales is an early work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, ...

A Jackson Pollock painting valued at $68m is in the middle of a legal dispute between a Los Angeles lawyer ...

The heirs of the Jewish banker and collector Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are continuing their court battle against a Japanese insurance ...

A French auction house is selling a work by Picasso that has not been seen in public for more than ...

Francis Bacon’s famous 1975 work, Portrait of a Dwarf, goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s London next month (16 October) ...

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze once described university seminars as “a kind of Sprechgesang, closer to music than to theatre”. ...

One of Vermeer’s most famous paintings—The Guitar Player (1672)—goes on show today alongside its “twin” in a new display at ...