Hans van Meegeren (1889-1947), Procuress (after Dirck van Baburen) Circa 1940. Oil on canvas, height: 98.7 cm; width: 103.9 cm A painting that supposedly was made by Hans van Meegeren, one of the most notable forgers of all time, dates, from the XVII Century and might have even hung in Johannes Vermeer’s house, according to [...]
Something and nothing, form and formlessness, concave and convex, hard and soft, rough and smooth, inside and outside, slow and fast, presence and absence, colour and non-colour, reflection and absorption, surface and depth, clean and dirty, big and small, movement and stasis, austerity and excess, illusion and reality, creation and destruction: Anish Kapoor’s joyful mid-career [...]
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami poses for a portrait at the Blum & Poe gallery in Los Angeles, during the exhibition. In his distinctive “Superflat” style, which employs highly refined classical Japanese painting techniques to depict a super-charged mix of Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational picture-plane, Murakami moves freely within an ever-expanding [...]
Joaquín Sorolla, Female Nude. Oil on canvas, 106 x 186 cm. 1902. The Museo del Prado has broken a ten year old attendance record with its Sorolla exhibition. More than 450,000 persons visited the exhibition which closed last Sunday. The director of the Museo del Prado, Miguel Zugaza, made the informaion public today saying that [...]
An employee from Bonham’s holds the remarkable sketchbook containing over 80 stunning watercolours by Count Amadeo Preziosi. A remarkable sketchbook containing over 80 stunning watercolours by Count Amadeo Preziosi, who left Malta to spend his life in Constantinople (Istanbul), is one of the highlights of Bonhams next Travel and Exploration Sale on 16 September in [...]
Detail from Paul Cézanne’s The Boy in the Red Vest. The painting was stolen from the Bührle Collection in Zurich in 2008. The last thing Bond villains and shadowy Mr Bigs want to worry about when buying a piece of art is where it came from. But for consumers who want to be as discerning [...]