Articles about Painting in Art

Alex Cooper's upcoming sale will be led by an abstract work by modern Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka, who pioneered a new avant-garde vocabulary in Japan during the second half of the 20th century.

René Magritte's Le Civilisateur painting portrays his dog Jackie, a testimony of his artistic research during the dark years of World War II, and is headed to auction this month.

Morphy presents two exceptional works by Georges Rouault and Korean artist Seund Ja Rhee at a major online auction. The rest of the catalog features creations by Daum Nancy, Tiffany Studios and Lalique.

Artcurial's upcoming sale features unique art works, including an iconic Paul Gauguin painting from his time in Tahiti and a Mary Cassatt masterpiece.

Bruun Rasmussen's upcoming sales will entice collectors with a wide range of Scandinavian treasures, from a rare Hammershøi interior painting to furniture from Hans Wegner and Kaare Klint.

An upcoming auction will pay tribute to Pierre Soulages and Wayne Thiebaud, two post-war giants of painting who will soon celebrate their 100th birthdays, with two 1960s masterpieces from prestigious collections.

A painting of a teenage Mozart, one of the rare portraits painted during his lifetime, will be auctioned by Christie's Paris this November. Preserved in a private collection, the work is estimated between $880,000-1.3 million.

RoGallery's upcoming sale on November 19-20 features modern and contemporary art and sculptures from masters like Milton Avery, Henri Matisse and Robert Matta.

A painting of the British poet and Modigliani's lover and muse Beatrice Hastings is coming up for auction at Christie's. But who was the woman behind the portrait?

A portrait of Lucretia by Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi that was recently rediscovered in a French collection will be on sale at Artcurial on November 13 and is expected to fetch up to $900,000.

A landscape that was intended to be gifted to JFK in Texas at LBJ's ranch on November 23, 1963, the day after his assassination in Dallas, goes up for auction next month at Austin Auction Gallery.

"Charing Cross Bridge", one of the many works in the London series by Claude Monet, will be sold at Sotheby's in November with an estimate of $20-30 million. 

Shannon's upcoming auction features an excellent selection of American and European fine art, including a hunting scene painted at a Rockefeller estate.

A painting by the early Renaissance master had hung in a French kitchen for 40 years until it was recently authenticated. Now it is the the first work by Cimabue to go to auction.

A portrait of Lucretia by Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi that was recently rediscovered in a French collection will be on sale in Paris in November. 

A large-scale painting by Banksy titled Devolved Parliament, depicting the British House of Parliament as monkeys, is expected to fetch up to $2.5 million at Sotheby's next month.

The last privately owned portrait by Sandro Botticelli will be for sale at London's upcoming Frieze art fair next month with a price tag of $30 million.

Want beautiful artworks without the heavy price tag?

Outstanding paintings and antiques of a bygone era are coming to the fore in an upcoming auction.

A painting that had been stolen from a Ukrainian art museum by the Nazis in 1941 was consigned to a Virginia auction house two years ago when its true nature was discovered.

Sophisticated technology has revealed preparatory sketches under the masterpiece The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci, which will be the centerpiece of an upcoming exhibit at the National Gallery London.

From Edvard Munch's The Scream to Van Gogh's Starry Night, here are the locations of the world's most famous artistic masterpieces.

Caspar David Friedrich is one of the most famous German painters and one of the most important. His works revolutionized landscape painting and had a great influence on later generations of artists.

The Panama Papers, a bank vault in Switzerland and a secretive ownership consortium all play a role in the case of the "Isleworth Mona Lisa". The ultimate question, however, is whether the artist of the young Mona Lisa is really Leonardo da Vinci.