Articles in Painting

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.

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

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.

Monet's water lilies are arguably his most famous motif. Now, the Gemeentemuseum has discovered some underneath a wisteria painting by the artist.

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 ...

Torn between figuration and abstraction, Georgia O’Keeffe is famous for her huge but also notoriously ambiguous flowers. Today she is viewed as a founding figure of modernism in 20th-century American painting.

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.

On May 14, the Met sold a painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir at Sotheby's for over $2 million, a work that had been in the museum's collection since 1971.

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, 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.

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!

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.

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.

At the Salon in 1810, Jacques-Louis David unveiled Napoloenic commission The Distribution of the Eagle Standards, which now hangs at Versailles. His preparatory oil sketch for this large-scale work heads for sale at Christie's on May 1.

Airbnb has partnered with the Louvre to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the famous Glass Pyramid and for the occasion, one lucky winner will spend a night at the museum among priceless artworks like the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo.

Legend has it that Impressionism was born at the end of the 19th century from Claude Monet’s painting ‘Impression: Sunrise’. This work gave name to the revolutionary movement that opened itself up to the outdoors, sun, colors, and to contrasts between shadows and light.

A large-scale painting by a court painter of Louis XIV hidden from the Nazis was discovered during the renovation of the new Oscar de la Renta boutique in Paris.

Delve into the history of the master of chiaroscuro.