Old Masters
Digging deep for Old Master treasures: mixed results at London sales as dearth of 'good material' continues
Christie's made a perky £28.1m while Sotheby's raised only £7.1m—a dramatic drop from pre-pandemic totals
Galleries bring out their prized works for first Tefaf Maastricht since pandemic—but sales are slower than usual
Dealers say that the two-year gap between the Dutch fair's editions has helped galleries to bring higher quality works
Old Master meets YBAs: James Cahill tells us all about his debut novel
The author explains why his new coming-of-age novel is set against the backdrop of the 1990s art world and what drew him to the paintings of the titular Tiepolo
Why take binoculars on your next museum visit? You might solve an art history mystery
An unattributed painting in Lincolnshire's Burghley House bears a striking resemblance to the work of Hans Eworth
America's racial reckoning: inside the controversial Guston show
Plus, London's new Queer Britain museum and a rediscovered work by Caterina Angela Pierozzi
Review: Does the Whitney Biennial really reflect the world today?
Plus, the exhibition Afro-Atlantic Histories opens in Washington and Raphael's late self-portrait at London's National Gallery
Newly attributed Michelangelo drawing expected to make €30m at Christie’s Paris next month
Formerly attributed to “the school of Michelangelo”, experts now say the nude sketch is by the master's own hand
Louvre suspends sale of Chardin's record-breaking strawberries
The French museum is now seeking funds to buy the still-life painting, which was sold last week by Artcurial to a US dealer for €24.3m
Raphael was radical and relentlessly inventive—and 500 years later a new exhibition of his work will show he still is
Delayed anniversary show of the Old Master at London's National Gallery will take things back to basics, allowing visitors to see the artist’s genius afresh
A Canova statue—lost in an English garden for decades and bought for £5,200—will be sold at Christie's London for £8m
The 19th-century work, executed just before the sculptor's death, has been rediscovered after languishing outside for more than 50 years
Rubens could become most expensive work of art ever sold in Poland
Portrait of a Lady by the artist and his workshop is expected to sell for up to £4m at DesaUnicum in Warsaw next month
Botticelli: my worries about the Man of Sorrows
The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution
Botticelli's 'stunning and puzzling' Man of Sorrows
The painting, sold last week at Sotheby's for $45.4m, was listed among workshop and studio pictures in Ronald Lightbown’s 1978 catalogue of Botticelli’s work, before being included as an autograph work in an exhibition at Frankfurt's Städel Museum in 2009. Here, in a pair of opinion pieces, two Renaissance experts give their contrasting views on its attribution
Late Botticelli painting sputters at Sotheby’s Old Masters auction in New York, selling for $45.4m
The star lot of the sale, a rediscovered and austere portrait of Christ, hammered just below its estimate
'Cancelled' Madonna and Child found beneath Botticelli's $40m Man of Sorrows
Infrared images of the painting, which is due to be sold at Sotheby's in New York later this month, show that an earlier composition lies underneath
Rediscovered Bernhard Strigel painting found in a Toulouse home expected to sell for up to €800,000
The panel is thought to be the pair of Strigel's Thurifer Angel, which was bought by the Louvre Abu Dhabi in Paris in 2008
New ‘Caravaggio’ work—once estimated at €1,500 and now worth millions—offered to Spain
Old Master painting was pulled from auction last year—but will the government pay full market price?
Omicron won't thwart my Old Master mission
My trip to Munich's Alte Pinakothek was worth the multiple levels of Covid-related admin
'There are too many auctions and not enough collectors': Christie's and Sotheby's thin Old Master sales fetch a combined £29.3m in London
The star of the sales was a pair of half-length portraits by Van Dyck that sold for £6.2m at Sotheby's, the second-highest price for the artist at auction
Big money, new collectors: the low-down on the New York auctions
Plus, Fabergé in London and a rediscovered Dürer
Christie's to sell 'The Vision', the last of Constable's famous view of Salisbury Cathedral left in private hands
The oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds, has never appeared at auction before and is expected for sell for between £2m to £3m this December in London
Painting recovered 40 years after its theft in East Germany may be an unknown Rembrandt
Analysis of the work—stolen in East Germany’s biggest art heist—suggests that it was painted by the Old Master rather than others in his studio
Another Botticelli hits the market: Sotheby's to sell Botticelli's The Man of Sorrows for in excess of $40m
Auction house will sell the painting in January and is dubbing it "The defining masterpiece of Botticelli's late career". But what exactly does that mean?
Contemporary paintings will hang with the Frick’s Old Masters in new art series
Doron Langberg will pair off with Hans Holbein, and Salman Toor will join Vermeer in the Breuer building this week
Recently restored Cupid joins nine Vermeer masterpieces for blockbuster show
Dresden exhibition will include Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window along with key international loans and works by other Dutch Golden Age artists
First full image of ‘new’ Vermeer with uncovered Cupid released by Dresden museum
Drastically altered composition of Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window can now be seen in all its glory ahead of major exhibition
Bellotto's view of Verona sells for record £10.5m at Christie's Old Master sale in London
Seven new artist records were set in tonight's auction, including for Georges de La Tour, while a second highest prices were set for female painters Angelica Kauffman and Artemisia Gentileschi
Head of a bear sets new record for a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, selling on a single bid for £8.8m at Christie's
The tiny "Post It note" drawing was sold by Thomas Kaplan, owner of the Leiden collection of Rembrandts, who bought it in 2008 based on a fax
'An opportunity for bargain hunters' or a waste of time? Italy relaxes stringent export laws for Old Masters and antiques worth less than €13,500
Lower-value older works and those by artists who died less than 50 years ago no longer need an export licence to leave the country—but the process can still be slow
England may be through to the Euro finals, but Sotheby's Old Master paintings sale scores an own goal
The auction house's £17.2m offering in London tonight was only 57% sold, overshadowed by the football match