The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767) in the Wallace Collection, London. Fragonard’s melting garden vista through which a woman swings to a perfumed fop’s delight may well be the most flirtatious painting of all time.
Damien Hirst has defied the slump in U.K. consumer spending by opening a second shop in London. Other Criteria, the U.K. artist’s publishing and merchandising company, started the store this week at 14 Hinde Street in the Marylebone district. It sells works including some by Hirst himself ranging from his keyrings at 3.50 pounds ($5) [...]
The National Gallery confirmed it had purchased “Bagpipe Player in Profile” (1624) by Hendrick ter Brugghen, which sold for $10.2 million at auction. (Sotheby’s) The National Gallery of Art’s acquisition of Bagpipe Player in Profile (1624) by Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen, made possible with substantial support of Gallery donors Greg and Candy Fazakerley, is [...]
Melting clocks, Mae West’s lips and a twenty foot high Space Elephant are just a few of the extraordinary works of art on display at the Dali Universe. Enter the genial mind of the greatest surrealist, self-publicist and creative genius of the Twentieth Century, Salvador Dali, in this stunning, permanent 30,000 square foot retrospective located [...]
Realist painter whose work was much loved by the US public but divided the critics Andrew Wyeth, who has died aged 91, was America’s best-known painter. Even his models became famous just for being his models: one was the subject of a biography, another, his neighbour Helga, was the centre of scandalised speculation because the [...]
The wax figure was found in the artist’s studio following his death in 1917 and cast in bronze in 1922: Degas’ Little Dancer Created in wax circa 1879-81, The Little Dancer was the only sculpture Degas exhibited during his lifetime. The bronze figure, one of only a handful of casts remaining in private hands, is [...]
It is extremely rare for Holbein works to emerge onto the market. The only recent example is Holbein’s Sir Thomas Wyatt (pictured), which was sold in London for a reported £6.8 million Photo: SOTHEBY’S The painting was thought to be a reproduction of the Renaissance artist’s work and bought for just £1,900 at an auction [...]