Queenstown artist Jackie Chatfield won the top $2000 Best of
Exhibition prize for her acrylic painting titled Dreams, at
the Queenstown Art Society’s Locations Art Awards night on
Friday.
Barbara Smith, of Queenstown, won Best Traditional Art for
her oil painting Shotover, The Branches.
Karen Scot, of Kingston, won Best Contemporary Art for her
acrylic Crossing Foveaux.
Queenstown [...]
Lost to scholars for the past 90 years, “The Cherry Picker” recently resurfaced in the hands of Baltimore native Dorothy Bair.
“The reappearance of this major canvas by 19th-century French academic painter William Adolphe Bouguereau is pretty rare,” said Curator Eik Kahng of the Walters Art Museum, where Bair donated Bouguereau’s portrait of a blond cherubic [...]
Feb. 19, 2008 — The oldest known oil painting, dating from 650 A.D., has been found in caves in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, according to a team of Japanese, European and U.S. scientists.
The discovery reverses a common perception that the oil painting, considered a typically Western art, originated in Europe, where the earliest examples date to [...]
NEW YORK – An oil-on-canvas painting by Spanish artist Juan Gris was auctioned Thursday for $20.8 million, surpassing its presale estimate of up to $18.5 million.
The 1915 painting “Livre, pipe et verres” (”Book, pipe and glasses”) was the top seller at Christie’s impressionist and modern art evening sale. Of the 82 pieces up for auction, [...]
Christie’s auction of Impressionist and Modern art on Thursday was packaged for the market as it existed six months ago, but the results reflected a more cautious and often grim new reality.
It wasn’t all bad news. A richly detailed Cubist painting by Juan Gris brought a record price of nearly $21 million.
But those moments were [...]
As Birmingham prepares to host a major exhibition of one of its most famous artistic sons, Terry Grimley looks at the legacy of watercolourist David Cox.
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Considering it’s the second largest city in the UK, Birmingham has produced disappointingly few artists of renown.
Two figures from the 19th century, David Cox and Edward Burne-Jones, stand out. David [...]
The first was purchased for just $25 (£16).
The 1947 oil painting turned out to be by pioneer of the Australian modernist movement Grace Cossington Smith, and has since been valued at $45,000 (£29,000).
Mrs Pool stumbled upon Wild Flowers with White Coral while browsing at a charity [...]
Look once at Louis Leopold Boilly’s Second Scene of Robbers and it might seem like a printed illustration taken from a book. Look again and see that it is, in fact, an oil painting pretending to be a print. This intriguing painting will be the subject of the Thursday, November 13, Looking at Lunchtime Talk [...]
A mystery Oxford University don is putting a lost painting by Sir Winston Churchill up for auction, after finding it in a dusty attic where it had been left untouched for decades.
The anonymous professor discovered the impressionist landscape wrapped up in a bin bag, but decided to sell the unsigned picture because he didn’t like [...]
A $60 million painting by Kazimir Malevich. A $40 million self-portrait by Francis Bacon. It hardly seems the ideal moment to be selling such pricey art. As Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips de Pury brace for their big fall auctions in New York, starting with a sale of 71 Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawings and sculptures [...]
