‘I’m working harder than ever’ … self-portrait of David Bailey with his sculpture Dead Andy. Photograph: David Bailey Quite recently, David Bailey decided to make a sculpture of his old friend Andy Warhol. In his studio on Dartmoor, he took a tin can, filled it with beans and then took some more beans to sculpt [...]
British artist Antony Gormley poses for photographs with one of his sculptures as part of the ‘Horizon Field’ project in Lech-Oberlech, Austria, 30 July 2010. On Saturday 31 July, the hundredth figure by leading British sculptor, Antony Gormley was lowered into place by helicopter to launch the artist’s unique installation, Horizon Field, in the mountains [...]
Art superintendent Rossella Vodret illustrates some detail of the painting at the center of the latest Caravaggio mystery, after the Vatican newspaper first suggested and then denied that the canvas was the work of the Italian master, in Rome, Italy, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The “Martyrdom of St. Lawrence” would now be examined to ascertain [...]
Detail from Edvard Munch’s Madonna The controversial artwork, in Munch’s famous swirling style, had been estimated to fetch £500,000 to £700,000 at Bonhams Prints sale in London. Bonhams said that as well as setting a UK record, the image was also the second most expensive print to be sold in the world. Another Munch work, [...]
The Virgin Mary is seen from the artwork “The Virgin on the Rocks” by Leonardo da Vinci (1491-1508), at the National Gallery in London July 14, 2010. An 18-month project to restore Leonardo da Vinci’s “Virgin of the Rocks” revealed the Renaissance artist likely painted the entire work himself rather than, as previously thought, with [...]
Attributed to Diego Velazquez, The Education of the Virgin, ca. 1617–18. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery. Based on the research of John Marciari, currently Curator of European Art and Head of Provenance Research at the San Diego Museum of Art and formerly the Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art [...]
A employee looks at an artwork, entitled Pink Cher, by British artist Scott King, on display in the Saatchi Gallery at Sloane Square in London, Britain, 01 July 2010. British art collector Charles Saatchi announced on 01 July he is donating his London gallery including more than 200 artworks worth more than 25 million GBP [...]
