Posts by Art & Antiques Magazine
Oskar Kokoschka Painting Sells for $425,000
At Bonhams’ Impressionist & Modern Art Auction in New York on May 12, Seated Old Man set a record for a work on paper by the artist when it sold for $425,000, over four times its high estimate.
Read MoreOne California Painter
The Laguna Art Museum puts some 70 works by the Ukrainian-born, California-based artist Peter Krasnow.
Read MoreHalf Animal, Half Symbolic
A Karel Appel exhibition opens at the Phillips Collection.
Read MoreMaking Waves
Marine painting enshrines the love of ships and the sea, and in the best examples one can almost feel the salt spray and hear the snap of the sails.
Read MoreFrom Harlem to the New York School
Once overlooked, the painter Norman Lewis’ contributions to Abstract Expressionism have come into the spotlight.
Read MoreMothers of Abstraction
A current exhibition at the Denver Art Museum gives 12 female Abstract Expressionists the show they should have had during the art movement’s heyday.
Read MoreCity on a Hill
Thanks to a historic collaboration between the Met and the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, an almost unbelievably rich trove of Hellenistic antiquities has come to New York.
Read MoreAmerican Art By Mail
How one company brought fine art into homes across the country.
Read MoreBirth of the Modern
Intended as interior design for the “common man,” so-called Biedermeier style turned out to be uncommonly prescient.
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