This is the battered face of American John Heenan, the “Benicia Boy” – after slugging it out for 37 rounds with legendary Brighton prize-fighter Tom Sayers.
Now the unusual portrait, painted in the aftermath of what is generally considered the last great bare-knuckle fight, has surfaced at a London auction.
The unframed oil painting is inscribed across [...]
A painting by Group of Seven founding member Lawren Harris has been discovered in the art collection of a Vancouver woman.
The woman, whose identity has not been released, is the daughter of the late Toronto artist Gordon A. Davies, a friend of Mr. Harris. Bert Dorpmans, an art appraiser who owns McMaster Framing in Dundas, [...]
Choosing Paints for Oil Painting ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) — A 1993 painting of Mao Zedong by China’s most-expensive contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi may fetch about HK$30 million ($3.9 million) at a Hong Kong art sale next month, according to Christie’s International.
Zeng’s 70 3/4 inch-by-79 inch oil-on-canvas “Mao I: From the Masses, to the Masses” is the star lot of Christie’s [...]
