French painter Paul Gauguin gets his first major exhibition in Britain for over 50 years this week, and early reviews suggest it was worth the wait. A woman walks by French artist Paul Gauguin’s artwork ‘Aha oe Feii? (What! Are You Jealous?)’, at the Gauguin: Maker of Myth exhibition, at the Tate Modern, in London. [...]

Spain’s prado Museum has discovered a previously unknown work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the 16th-century Flemish master, after cleaning a painting that had been attributed to his less illustrious son. “The Wine of Saint Martin’s Day” is Bruegel’s largest surviving canvas, and one of his few signed works. Bruegel is best known today for [...]

A doorman who works across from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art found a painting outside his building and kept it for weeks, then realized it was a missing work at the center of a bizarre legal web and turned it in to investigators this week, an official said. “Portrait of a Girl,” painted in [...]

Christie’s announced the sale of the Collection of Max Palevsky, a superb group of over 250 works ranging from Antiquities to those by the most significant artists from the Impressionist and Modern and Post-War and Contemporary periods. The collection will be offered throughout multiple auctions starting in October 2010 at Christie’s New York and is [...]

JMW Turner, Sun Setting over a Lake circa 1840 It will be interesting to see whether Tate Britain’s new director, Penelope Curtis, can do anything about the curse of the Clore Gallery. This museum-within-a-museum housing Turner’s bequest to the nation of 300 oil paintings and more than 20,000 works on paper opened in 1987 to [...]

“Portrait of a Girl” by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. The painting is missing after a man hired to help sell the painting misplaced it after a night of drinking. The owner valued it at $1.4 million. Tom Doyle and James Carl Haggerty weren’t hobnobbing in Manhattan, Miami or London in early 2007 as the art market was [...]