Andy Warhol, Brillo Soap Pads Box , 1964, silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on wood, 17 x 17 x 14 in. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Founding Collection. More than 100 Brillo boxes, said to be works by Andy Warhol, have been declared “copies” by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board after a three-year [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]