Artists have always recycled their era’s “Old Masters”: Romans quoted the Greeks, Rodin studied Michelangelo, and Picasso returned to Rembrandt, to name just a few. While the prevalence of these ...
What’s the very latest flight of fancy on Manhattan’s fluttery gallery row? Rembrandt’s The Night Watch. Rembrandt’s The Night Watch? That’s right, along with Titian, Fragonard and Van Dyck. As ...
What made the 2010 Bushwick Open Studios so phenomenal was the chance to stomp through hundreds of studios and draw connections. I was surprised by how various artists who may have never met each ...
The fabled Saunders Collection fell $15 million short at Sotheby's—and you need to pay attention. Jan Davidsz. De Heem, Still Life of Roses, Tulips, a Sunflower, Lilies, an Iris, Poppies, Honeysuckle ...
A recently discovered painting by the 16th-century artist Lavinia Fontana being offered at a Sotheby’s Old Master sale on Thursday is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist painted while she was ...
I meet the Old Masters dealer Ben Hall at his private Upper East Side gallery and office, which sits in a five-story limestone-faced townhouse, as befits a dealer in venerable paintings. Most of the ...
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday. As an Old Masters auction started up in ...
Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn was into selfies — really into them. In fact, it could be said that Rembrandt perfected the selfie several centuries before social media influencers came onto the scene.
NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The history of Modern Indian Art shines with countless luminous stars, whose legacy is eternally remembered and cherished. Of these, the old masters of Indian art, active during ...