Artemisia Painting Acquired By Getty Museum – Musée d’Orsay Rebranded – Museum Visitors Plummet By 77%
Artemisia Painting Acquired By Getty Museum – Musée d’Orsay Rebranded – Museums Visitors Plummet By 77%
31 March 2021
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David Hockney’s Iconic Splash Painting Sells For £23m
David Hockney’s iconic work, The Splash, has been sold for £23.1m at Sotheby’s in London. The name of the buyer has not been disclosed. It had been estimated to sell for £20m-£30m – and ended up going for £23,117,000.
11 February 2020
Lost LS Lowry Painting Sells At Christie’s For £2.65m
A long lost painting by LS Lowry which hasn’t been seen for 70 years has been rediscovered and heads for the auction block at Christie’s in the new year. The work titled The Mill, Pendlebury, painted in 1943 shows workers on a bank holiday with children playing cricket.
26 December 2019
Stolen Joshua Reynolds Painting In Japanese Museum Was Sold By Sotheby’s
A painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, stolen from a UK stately home in 1984, has been discovered in the collection of a Japanese museum.
6 September 2019
British Museum Acquires Dante Gabriel Rossetti Painting Belonging To William Morris
The British Museum has acquired an important painting by the English painter, poet and Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founder, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882).
3 September 2019
Botticelli Masterpiece Discovered In English Heritage Collection
A new Botticelli painting has been discovered in an English Heritage property collection. For years it lay beneath yellowing varnish and it wasn’t until this was stripped away that the work was attributed to the Renaissance master’s studio.
28 March 2019
Lost Caravaggio Judith: Is This Painting Another Salvator Mundi?
A long lost painting attributed to Caravaggio which languished in a chateau attic in France for over 100 years is touring art market capitals and then going under the hammer at La Halle aux Grains in Toulouse, in June.
3 March 2019
Gurlitt Cezanne – Kunstmuseum And Cezanne Family Reach Agreement Over Painting
The Kunstmuseum Bern and the Cezanne Estate have reached an agreement over an important work by the Post Impressionist painter,
4 July 2018
Lucian Freud Landscape Discovered Under Suffolk Sign Painter’s Canvas
A landscape painting depicting trees and a bridge over a stream attributed to the British artist Lucian Freud has been… Read More
3 July 2018
Stolen Edgar Degas Painting Worth £800k Found On Bus Near Paris
A valuable pastel on canvas by the French Impressionist artist Edgar Degas titled Les Choristes/The Chorus stolen from a Marseille museum in 2009, has been discovered on a bus close to Paris. It was found during a random search, according to officials.
24 February 2018
Derrick Adams Paintings Inspired By The 1936 Negro Travel Guide Exhibited
It’s been a busy year for Brooklyn based artist Derrick Adams. When I met the charming multimedia artist at Swiss Beatz’ holiday party, the huge letters spelling out Derrick’s name were in celebration of his banner year.
22 January 2018
Leonardo da Vinci $450m Christ Becomes Most Expensive Painting Sold At Auction
A Leonardo da Vinci painting depicting Christ has become the world’s most expensive work of art sold at auction. The rediscovered masterpiece by the Renaissance master sold for a historic $450,312,500, superseding the previous world record for the most expensive work of art at auction.
16 November 2017
Stolen Stanley Spencer Painting Worth £1m Recovered From Drugs Den
A painting by Sir Stanley Spencer titled Cookham from Englefield, that was stolen five years ago from the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Berkshire has been uncovered in a raid on a drug dealer’s home in Kingston- Upon-Thames. The work of art valued at over £1m has now been returned to the gallery, police have revealed.
21 October 2017
Privately Owned Leonardo da Vinci Painting To Be Sold At Christies
Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi. Painted by one of the Renaissance greatest masters is to go under the hammer at Christie’s. Titled Salvator Mundi, it is one of fewer than 20 known paintings by Leonardo and the only one in private hands.
11 October 2017
Another Year Another Leonardo da Vinci Drawing Discovered
A drawing in charcoal which is part of a prominent art collection in France may be a study for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.
29 September 2017
Stolen Willem de Kooning Painting Returns To Museum After 32 Years
Stolen Willem de Kooning Painting Returns To Museum After 32 Years
12 August 2017
Crash Goes The American Dream c1930 RA Unveil Timely Painting Exhibition
Exhibitions in major galleries are usually planned years ahead. So it is the Royal Academy’s good fortune that their two excellent shows Revolution: Russian Art 1917-32* and American After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s, should be so in tune with the current political zeitgeist.
26 February 2017
Annibale Carracci Baroque Portrait Of Elegantly Dressed African Woman Discovered
An extremely rare portrait from the late 16th century by the renowned Italian Baroque artist Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), which belonged to King Philip V of Spain and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, has been discovered following extensive research by, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art gallery in London.
1 January 2017
Top 10 – Worst Paintings
Since its inception, Artlyst has been a huge fan and supporter of ‘Outsider Art’ as a genre. So when we… Read More
23 December 2016
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Masterpiece Discovered Behind Another Canvas In Frankfurt Museum
A previously unknown painting by the German Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner has been discovered behind a later canvas. The Städel Museum in Frankfurt announced the exciting news.
24 October 2016
Rare Theodore Gericault Painting Goes Under the Hammer In Denmark
An important painting by the French Romantic artist Théodore Géricault (Rouen 1791-Paris 1824) Study for “Medusas Flåde” (Louvre collection) is… Read More
23 June 2016
MacDougall’s Offers Rare Glimpse Of Palmyra In 1930s Russian Painting
The great Syrian ruins of Palmyra, recently damaged by ISIS, is depicted in its former glory, as viewed in the early… Read More
31 May 2016
Clyfford Still Museum Agrees To Loan Royal Academy Nine Iconic Paintings
The Clyfford Still Museum in Denver Colorado has agreed to loan the Royal Academy an unprecedented nine major paintings from the… Read More
13 April 2016
Hieronymus Bosch Panel Discovered In Kansas City Museum Storeroom
A newly discovered painting by Hieronymus Bosch which dates from around 1500–10 has been attributed to the master after being discovered in… Read More
2 February 2016
Early Francis Bacon Relationship Revealed In Newly Discovered Diary
A newly discovered diary found during research for a major biography of the painter Francis Bacon has uncovered new information… Read More
6 January 2016
Charles Darwin Watercolour Painted On The Ship Beagle Discovered
A watercolour painted of Charles Darwin on the ship Beagle is to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s. His theory… Read More
24 November 2015
Hieronymus Bosch: New Drawing Discovered
A drawing of hell previously attributed to a workshop assistant of Hieronymus Bosch has now been recognised as an authentic… Read More
2 November 2015
20/21 British Art Fair To Present Newly-Discovered Portrait Of Winston Churchill
A newly-discovered portrait of Sir Winston Churchill by Walter Sickert (1860-1942) is set to attract international attention when it goes… Read More
26 August 2015
Irma Stern Painting Sold To Fund Nelson Mandela Defence To Be Auctioned
An historic painting by the South African artist Irma Stern, which was discovered in a London flat, where it was… Read More
23 July 2015
Max Liebermann Painting From Cornelius Gurlitt Trove Auctioned In London
An exceptional painting by Max Liebermann discovered in Cornelius Gurlitt’s Home and successfully restituted to its rightful heirs, is to… Read More
22 May 2015
Lost Ingres Masterpiece Discovered In A Hospital Attic In France
The chance discovery of a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, located in the town of Lons-le-Saunier, in the French province of… Read More
24 April 2015
Henry Hudson Unveils New Monumental Painting Series In Plasticine
A monumental series, created over three years by the London-based artist Henry Hudson, displays the artist’s virtuoso use of Plasticine as a medium…. Read More
20 April 2015