Articles about Painting in Art

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is embarking on a year-long restoration of Rembrandt's 17th century group portrait, but the work will remain on display during the process.

The Renaissance master's unfinished painting, Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness, will be on display at the Met from July 15 to October 15 on loan from the Vatican Museums.

The grandchildren of Jewish art dealer René Gimpel have gone to court over the return of three André Derain paintings, currently displayed in French museums. The five heirs claim that the works were the subject of a forced sale during World War II. 

The Caravaggio masterpiece Judith and Holofernes that was found in a Toulouse attic in 2014 was planned to go to auction on June 27th and fetch up to $170 million, but sold privately to Met Museum board member J. Tomilson Hill before the public sale.

On June 22, a painting by Renaissance painter Nicolas Cordonnier that was discovered in a French apartment sold for $107,000, almost 10 times its estimate.

After Salvator Mundi sold at Christie's in 2017 for $450 million, the world's most expensive painting disappeared without explanation. Now, Kenny Schachter, a writer for Artnet News, has received crucial information about its current location ...

Monet's waterlilies paintings are arguably his most famous motif, and the Gemeentemuseum, the municipal museum of The Hague in the Netherlands, found them underneath one of their other Monet paintings.

The baseball superstar is unloading two paintings at Phillips' 20th Century and Contemporary sale on June 27th as he prepares to marry Jennifer Lopez and start a new art collection.

"The story of this Caravaggio began in Toulouse, and it will end in Toulouse," said Marc Labarbe. After five years of research, a Toulouse auction house will hold the sale of Caravaggio’s ‘Judith and Holofernes’ later this month.

With four major American museums auctioning paintings by famous artists at Sotheby's this year, Barnebys investigates the growing trend of deaccessioning.

For nearly three centuries, a cupid hid in the background of Johannes Vermeer's "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window." However, the gradual removal of a layer of paint has recently freed the cherub from the shadows. 

On May 14, the Met sold a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir at Sotheby's for $2.3 million, a work that had been in the museum's collection since 1971.

On May 14, a new record was set for the pioneer of Impressionism when his Meules painting from the famous Haystacks series sold for $110.7 million at Sotheby's.

In the collection of Princess Titi von Fürstenberg for decades, Picasso's portrait of his first wife Olga, painted in 1923, sold for $25.2 million at Christie's on May 13.

Shannon’s spring auction totals over $2 million and 75% sold, including a $100,000 sale of a painting by Vietnamese artist Le Pho.

From May 16-June 8, the Cologne auction house Lempertz presents over 2,000 lots at auction, including a portrait painted for King Ludwig's Royal Gallery of Beauties and a Gerhard Richter oil sketch.

The Fondation Beyeler, in collaboration with Swisscom, launched the #myprivatepicasso contest last month and the lucky winner displayed Picasso's Bust of a Woman with a Hat (Dora) in his barn!

Bruneau & Co. Auctioneer's upcoming May 4th auction features over 350 lots of paintings, sculptures, Asian art, jewelry and more.

Caravaggio's "Judith Beheading Holofernes" that was found in a French attic will be shown publicly in New York from May 10-17 before heading back to France for auction.

Controversial for his time and yet undoubtedly a recognized genius, Gustav Klimt is today considered one of the most significant artists of the 20th century and a noteworthy figure of early modernism. Famous for grappling with subjects of the human psyche through his fleshy depictions of the female form, his work transcends planal reality and yet evokes a sense of raw humanity and emotion in its most vulnerable state.

Vincent van Gogh is an embodiment of the myth of the tortured artist: neurotic, emotional, troubled, and mysterious, but above an uncontested genius. In less than a decade, the painter produced a body of work that's unique in the history of art and has earned him worldwide fame - a supreme achievement for one who during his lifetime was largely ignored.

Here's the story behind La Circassienne au Bain, an early 19th century oil painting by French Salon master Merry-Joseph Blondel, which sank on the Titanic's fatal voyage in 1912.

A painting by French Pointillist Paul Signac, which was stolen in 2018 from the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, France, was just found by the Ukrainian authorities, who suspect that the criminal group is also involved in the Renoir robbery in Vienna.

The art collection of Kate Edelman Johnson, a film producer and philanthropist, will go under the hammer at Andrew Jones Auction on May 18-19.