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Oskar Kokoschka, Sitzender bärtiger Mann (Seated Old Man), 1907

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.

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Peter Krasnow, K.-13, 1977

One California Painter

The Laguna Art Museum puts some 70 works by the Ukrainian-born, California-based artist Peter Krasnow.

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Karel Appel, Floating like the Wind, 1975

Half Animal, Half Symbolic

A Karel Appel exhibition opens at the Phillips Collection.

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James E. Buttersworth, Clipper Ship Black Warrior, circa 1853

Making 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.

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Norman Lewis, Girl with Yellow Hat, 1936

From Harlem to the New York School

Once overlooked, the painter Norman Lewis’ contributions to Abstract Expressionism have come into the spotlight.

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Lee Krasner, Untitled, 1942

Mothers 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.

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Fragmentary Colossal Head of a Youth, Greek, Hellenistic period

City 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.

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James Chapin, Boy, That’s Tobacco, 1942

American Art By Mail

How one company brought fine art into homes across the country.

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Biedermeier sewing table with lyre base

Birth 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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