Texan artist Michael Shellis was commissioned to depict the monarch and presented the portrait to him at Buckingham Palace.
A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at auction after selling for $54.7 million. Kahlo’s surrealist self portrait, which was sold by ...
The surrealistic self-portrait was made in 1940, a turbulent year in the Mexican artist’s life as her health and marriage deteriorated. By Zachary Small and Tim F. Schneider An enigmatic self-portrait ...
Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...
What do a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened Sotheby’s first sale out of its new US headquarters in New York on Tuesday evening in a buzzy, ...
A storied Gustav Klimt painting sold for $236.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday night, setting a new auction record for the turn-of-the-20th-century Viennese artist. It is the most ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Klimt painting sells for record $236 million A ...
An art handler stands in front of "Bildnis Elisabeth Lederer" ("Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer"), by Gustav Klimt, during a press preview at Sotheby's in New York City earlier this month. Photo: Alexi ...
Los Angeles — Three paintings from famously chill public television legend Bob Ross sold Tuesday for more than $600,000 at auction. The paintings were the first of 30 Ross works being sold to benefit ...
Three original paintings by Bob Ross were auctioned Tuesday for more than $600,000 combined as part of a series to help raise money for public broadcasting after the Trump administration cut funding.
In the middle of a huge bed floating in a cloudy sky, the silhouette of Frida Kahlo, her jet hair sweeping across the pillow, disappears beneath the embrace of a yellow blanket and a leafy branch. The ...
Senior Lecturer in the History of British Art, Queen Mary University of London Cardiff University and Lancaster University provide funding as founding partners of The Conversation UK. In 18th and 19th ...