An Old Master painting looted by the Nazis but then saved by the Monuments Men has raked in an impressive £436,000 at auction. The early 18th century work by Nicolas de Largillierre, titled ...
Perhaps most tantalisingly of all, could it be an almost 400-year-old masterpiece ... an art specialist at Bonhams. “It is just hard to find one that is the hand of the master and not the ...
Some notable lots include a religious painting by the Renaissance master Ambrosius Benson (estimated at $600,000 to $800,000) and a Madonna and Children from around 1620 by the Italian old master ...
He was all but forgotten by the art world in the years after his death ... Today, of course, Vermeer is the very definition of Old Master accomplishment. But what is his best work?
When I was young, I mainly knew Old Master paintings from reproductions. There was one of Fra Angelico’s Annunciation, from San Marco, on the top corridor at Bradford Grammar School. I think it ...
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. At Sotheby's Old Masters and 19th ...
Christie's is offering a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live ...