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 [...]
Andre Derain’s landscape from the Ambroise Vollard collection, which sold for a record £16.5 million After the buzz of expectation created by the London salerooms, they did produce a record series of Impressionist and Modern art auctions last week, but only just. Mid-way through the fifth and final session, the sales total crept past the [...]
Scientists have pinpointed exactly where Claude Monet was in the Savoy Hotel when he painted Charing Cross Bridge and Waterloo Bridge in heavy smog. When Monet painted Waterloo Bridge in 1903 he was on the fifth floor balcony of the Savoy Hotel, say the scientists. Through a thick blanket of pre-war smog, it is hard [...]
A view of a portrait which Italian art experts now believe to have been created by Renaissance genius Raphael in Florence, Italy, 07 May 2010. The painting had lain in storage in a ducal palace since the 1970s. At the time, experts said it was probably a 17th-century copy of a painting from the Raphael [...]
Only two of the four artists shortlisted for this year’s Turner prize – Susan Philipsz and Angela de la Cruz – are worthy contenders. Not good enough. “A candidate for the world’s first talent transplant”? Detail from Death of David Kelley (2008) by Turner prize shortlisted artist Dexter Dalwood. Photograph: Dave Morgan/Prudence Cuming Associates/Gagosian Gallery [...]
To the untutored eye little is different about “The Actor,” the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rare Rose Period Picasso, other than that it is now safely behind plexiglass. It’s virtually impossible to tell that on a January afternoon a woman taking an adult education class accidentally fell into the canvas, causing a six-inch vertical tear [...]