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 ...

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 ...

The panel features monsters with African, Indigenous Caribbean and intersex features, encouraging viewers to connect the sins and punishments depicted to those considered “other” Surekha Davies - ...

PARIS — A vividly hued Picasso portrait of longtime muse and partner Dora Maar that had remained hidden from public view for more than eight decades sold Friday at auction for 32 million euros (about ...

The artist visited Venice only once, on a 1908 holiday with his wife, Alice. His trip resulted in 37 paintings of the city, and 19 of them will be displayed at the Brooklyn Museum starting on October ...