Billed as the first-ever COLLAGE survey exhibition in the world, this Edinburgh Festival fun extravaganza of 400 years of cut and paste art encompasses Picasso to Monty Python, Victorian valentines to Andy Warhol, Max Ernst to Peter Blake, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg – and of course today’s Photoshop.
1 August 2019
It wasn’t the billion dollar sale that Christie’s optimistically predicted but it was an evening of fierce bidding and record prices for both Matisse and the stalwart of Impressionism Monet.
9 May 2018
Highlights from what many have dubbed the sale to watch in 2018, the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller has been revealed by Christie’s.
22 November 2017
I went to see the R.A.’s new Matisse show, but not at the press view, as I was abroad. I did go very shortly after it opened. Not unexpectedly, it was jammed with visitors, and I mean jammed. You had to dodge round backs to get a proper view of some of the smaller items, notably the drawings.
11 August 2017
The trial of the 2010 ‘Spider-Man’ burglary at the Musee d’Art Moderne in Paris has concluded securing an eight year sentence for 49-year-old Serbian mastermind Vjeran Tomic.
21 February 2017
A painting by the French Fauvist artist Henri Matisse of the Artist Greta Moll is at the centre of a dispute,… Read More
23 November 2015
The Turner Prize nominated international artist Sean Scully, has revealed his sublime, completely bespoke chapel housed in the recently renovated Romanesque Church… Read More
30 June 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
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
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
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
There is little to fault in terms of curation of ‘The Cut Outs’, a chronological survey of Matisse’s late period… Read More
24 April 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
A Norwegian museum has agreed to the restitution of a $20m (£12m) Matisse painting stolen by the Nazis from the… Read More
22 March 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
Matisse’s iconic cut-out masterpiece, ‘The Snail’ will be leaving Britain for the first time in 50 years, to be included… Read More
30 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
The Rijksmuseumis in Amsterdam is among hundreds of public institutions assisting in the search for looted Nazi treasures stolen from… Read More
30 October 2013
The Tate have announced some of the highlights for their 2014 exhibition programme. Included will be major exhibitions of the… Read More
19 April 2013
Relatives of the legendary Parisian art dealer Paul Rosenberg are demanding the return of a Matisse Masterpiece from the Henie-Onstad… Read More
6 April 2013
Born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York, Alex Katz is one of the most important and respected living American artists…. Read More
6 May 2012
Alice Babette Toklas (1877-1967) is best remembered as the pseudo-subject of Gertrude Stein’s memoirs, but this American woman was an… Read More
30 April 2012
Security must be tightened at major museums internationally A woman with mental health problems who also attacked a $100m painting… Read More
15 August 2011
