Gabrielle Berlatier was a farmer's daughter who kept her traumatic encounter with the artist a secret

New research into the artist's work has offered new perspectives, but much work remains to be done

Billionaire hedge-funder is believed to have bought works by De Kooning and Pollock in one of the biggest private sale in history

Ten proposals have made it to the next round of architecture competition

A show of the artist's work reveals her proximity to and distance from both modernism and academicism

Major exhibition opens of the artists who put poetry, myth, love and death first and foremost

To mark the 200th anniversary of his birth, a book celebrates Adolph Menzel as the “painter of modern life”

A splendid exhibition gauges the painter's influence on the Impressionists and post-Impressionists

Two shows in Bern reveal how the artist grappled with youth, exile and death

Hirshhorn holds preliminary talks but Berlin first in queue to borrow works by artists such as Gauguin, Pollock, Rothko, Picasso and Bacon

Exhibition of Western and Iranian art agreed in historic German-Iranian deal

Stands pay tribute to dealers who were ahead of their time

The 12-foot sculpture has not left Brazil since Calder gave it to the Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil in São Paulo, in 1948

La Gommeuse is being sold at Sotheby’s New York with a second, irreverent work on the reverse

Phillips to host non-selling Barbara Hepworth show in London next summer, with works on loan from Wakefield and private collections

The art historian’s new book is properly pessimistic

Modern Italian works set to steal contemporary art’s limelight (again) in Frieze Week sales

The auction house looks to hold on to its lead in Impressionist and Modern art against rival Christie’s

The US artist’s exhibition at the Royal Academy is full of careful omissions

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute is a road map for the artist’s psychological journey

Joshua Decter’s book of essays raises questions it refuses to answer

The artist’s conventional beginnings belie his artistic proclivity for mockery. By Alexander Adams

The US artist’s retrospective at Tate Modern reveals an artist who transcended traumas

Impressionist and Modern art auctions were in line with expectations

The central exhibition at the Venice Biennale is searing but splendid, even if it raises moral concerns

The auction house took a chance sticking to a schedule that clashed with the Venice Biennale’s opening—and it paid off