For more than a century, the Judith Leyster painting now at the Louvre was thought to be by Frans Hals. The misattribution wasn’t completely misguided—The Carousing Couple (1630) shows a loosely painted violinist reveling with a woman who tips her glass and smiles in his direction, precisely the jolly types that the Dutch Golden Age artist was wont to paint. But it was also exactly the kind of image produced by Hals’s peer, an artist who flourished in her lifetime and was then forgotten, even though her signature was always right there on her canvases and panels.
South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism said that the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, the top modern art museum in the country, made suspect financial last year. The findings were uncovered during an internal audit the agency conducted between October and December of last year.
Claude Monet moved his family from Argenteuil, a northwestern suburb of Paris, to Vétheuil, a commune on the Seine some 60 kilometers northwest of the city, in 1878. His wife died a year later, but Monet’s creative process continued to flourish in his new surroundings, expanding his oeuvre as a landscape painter.
The Independent art fair has announced the exhibitors for its forthcoming edition in New York, which will run from May 11 to 14 at Tribeca’s Spring Studios.
“The world is going to change radically.” Henk Peeters said so more than once, as an expression of his deep desire for a Communist society. It was not to be, but Peeters remained an idealist. Today, he is best known for his mixed-media works constructed from natural elements, tactile industrial materials, and found objects, which he made as an active member of the radical Dutch Nul group.
Intuition and mathematics; this paradox could be used when describing the art of the Dutch artist Jaap Egmond, who is best known for his abstract reliefs and became a representative of minimalism in the Netherlands in the 1970s and 1980s.
A Sotheby’s sale of a rare copy of the Constitution of the United States was suddenly postponed
Andy Warhol with two of his paintings of Marilyn Monroe, Tate Millbank, UK, 22 February 1987.PA IMAGES VIA GETTY IMAGES
Christie’s sold 150 works from the Paul G. Allen Collection for over $1.6 billion on 09-10 November 2022, as wealthy collectors around the world shrugged off economic and crypto worries to invest in trophy artworks.
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