Louis Jean Francois Lagrenée’s (1725–1805) “Venus Bathing” provided the highlight of the 400th Art and Antiques Auction conducted this summer by Nagel Auktionen.
Tallying $11.7 million over three days, Northeast Auction’s August 4–6 Americana sale was a personal best for auctioneer Ron Bourgeault, who sold his first lot for more than a million dollars.
A capacity crowd of nearly 1,000 buyers of western art filled the Grand Ballroom of the Reno Hilton Resort and Casino for the 20th Annual Coeur d’Alene Art Auction.
After 100 years of its whereabouts unknown to the art world, James McNeill Whistler’s marine oil “Violet and Blue: Among the Rollers” is headed to the Detroit Institute of Arts, the fifth largest...
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), America's finest black artist before Jacob Lawrence and the first African American painter to gain international acclaim, spent most of his life...
Showcasing 125 baskets, "Woven Worlds: Basketry from the Clark Field Collection," on view at the Mint Museum of Craft & Design September 9-December 31, honors tribal groups from the United States,...
"Factory Work: Warhol, Wyeth and Basquiat," on exhibition September 9-November 19 at the Brandywine River Museum, explores the collaborations between Pop artist Andy Warhol and realist Jamie Wyeth (b 1946),...
Danish silversmith Georg Jensen and his group of designers who helped establish one of the world's most important silverwares firms, will be the subject of "Georg Jensen Silversmiths," at the Philadelphia...
From tight hose and doublets to codpieces to the wasp-waisted frock coat that preceded the modern suit, the history of men's fashion is more innovative and less conservative than is generally known.