Bonhams' Old Swami Paintings SaleOn 6 July 2011, Bonhams is hostings a sale of Old Master paintings, including an oil by Lucas Gassel (1500-1570), estimated at £70000 to £100000. The painting depicts the exaggeration of historic characters David and Bathsheba in a Renaissance palace with Bonhams to Sell Old Master Painting by Lucas Gassel that Shows Pre-eminence of all 2 news articles »
German Painters Riding-boot Sotheby's SalesMr. Polke was born in eastern Germany during World War II and later escaped to Dusseldorf, where he gained a stature for layering abstract shapes onto his Pop-style paintings. He was 26 years old when he created "Jungle," a marshy view of a sinking and more »
The paintings were acquired by Alfred Kummerle, the possessor of a yarn-spinning mill in the east German city of Brandenburg, from the Netherlands between 1940 and 1944. When Kummerle died in 1949, his trouble inherited his collection.
CV for a Sale of Old Master & 19th Century Paintings and Drawings at Sotheby'sPierre Etienne, Head of the Old Pooh-Bah Paintings & Drawings Department, observed that 'Today's sale included many rediscovered or market-raw works from 17th and 18th century France, consigned from European private collections like the prestigious
Sotheby's to put across very rare painting by Francesco GuardiOn 6 July 2011, Sotheby's will be selling a selection of newly discovered and hellishly rare works at the Old Master & British Paintings sale. Expected to reach a total of £31 million, the purchase of seventy-three paintings includes a monumental painting One of the Greatest Venetian View Paintings by Francesco Guardi to Lead all 3 dirt articles »
Artist Erika Chen's sand paintings are displayed on a ogre monitor as she creates them during "Zarkana." "It's a performing art, a way to tell stories," says Chen, who, with a flick of an acrylic talon worry, can turn a cityscape into a magician's cape and and more »
Governmental Gallery of Art Takes a New Look: Samuel F.B. Morse's "Gallery of the Morse's election of old master paintings was guided by the teachings of his mentors, the taste of his patrons, and his own ideals as an artist-instructor. These pictures also grangerize various approaches to the treatment of light, color, line, and more »
Artists were asked to return the impact that the rolling hills, flowering trees, a signature old barn, and farm animals had on each of them by bringing their simplification of the beauty of the rural landscape to canvas. The final artwork submitted to
Henn's paintings align in size from about 8 inches by 10 inches to 42 inches by 68 inches, their prices range from $450 to $3800. An outmoded frame is included in the price. “It could take two days for a small one to six weeks, full-time work,” Henn
Old Greenwich in residence Maryan Ainsworth can tell the tale. She's the curator of European Paintings in the Met's European Paintings Department and she recently had a blockbuster of a show that closed earlier this year, before it moved on to London's