The Courtauld Gallery, London presents Egon Schiele: The Radical Nude; the exhibition surveys the artist's drawings and watercolours from a controversial and all too brief career - as the artist died aged only 28, succumbing to the Spanish flu, that only three days...
Art dealers are up in arms about looming US legislation that they believe would have a ‘significant and negative impact on the art market in New York’. The potential legislation relates to the legal battle over the ownership of Egon Schiele’s Seated...
Sotheby's has set a record price for the Viennese Secessionist painter Egon Schiele. The landscape titled "Hauser mit bunter Wasche 'Vorstadt' has sold for a staggering £24.7 million or $40.1 million at a London auction held yesterday. Last year, a US court ruling...
Compensation to the family of a Jewish art dealer who was forced to sell a painting by Secessionist Artist, Egon Schiele, during the war, is finally going to be realised. The painting now in the collection of the Leopold Museum in Vienna was donated by a wealthy...
The R.A.’s show of drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, almost all of them loaned by the Albertina Museum in Vienna, arrives at a crucial moment in the long history of visual art. Drawing, for long the simplest and most direct way of creating an image, is...
Tate Liverpool - There is a sense of the grotesque to the work of Egon Schiele. His gnarled and crooked drawings of nudes are strong but isolated within the pure space of the surrounding paper. Limbs become exaggerated and deformed as in ‘’Standing Male Nude’, 1910,...
I first met Tracey Emin in the 1990s, when she was a young artiste maudit, hanging out with the then-new YBA bad boys, but not yet a household name. It was at her tiny Waterloo shop that she was running with Sarah Lucas, and she was off her head, presumably from a...
Paul Freud occupies a curious and compelling corner of British painting. Despite sharing a famous surname with his father, Lucian, he is an artist who has quietly built a language of his own. Born in Paddington in 1959 and raised in the cultural sprawl of North...
Sotheby's New York witnessed a commendable result at their 'Now' sale on November 15. The lots amassed a substantial and healthy $305.7 million through a three-hour sale. The event comprised two auctions, one spotlighting emerging art and the other featuring blue-chip...