Since March, the magnetic swaths of color that are the acclaimed quilted portraits of artist Bisa Butler have filled my social media, as Black friends far and wide converge on The Art Institute of Chicago for the “Bisa Butler: Portraits” exhibit. Those same friends began filling social feeds last month with photos of the Art Institute’s newest exhibit — National Portrait Gallery paintings of ...
Sir Thomas Lawrence’s famed portrait of Charles William Lambton, widely known as Red Boy, will soon join the collection of the National Gallery in London. The institution has committed to buying the work from a private collection for £9.3 million (around $12.7 million). In a statement, the National Gallery said the purchase is a unique opportunity “to acquire an exceptionally important painting by one ...
Sotheby’s staged its marquee British and Modern Art sales today in London. The back-to-back sales led by Sotheby’s veteran auctioneers Oliver Barker and Helena Newman made £156.2 million ($217 million) combined across 83 lots, landing within the pre-sale estimate £119.7 million-£170.3 million ($165.8 million–$235.9 million) and seeing an 88 percent sell-through rate. The result was up 12 percent from last June’s $193 million “Rembrandt ...
A portrait of David Hockney by Lucian Freud sold at Sotheby’s in London during a British modern art evening sale on Tuesday for £14.9 million ($20.7 million) with buyer’s premium. The portrait is now the sixth-most expensive work by Freud to ever sell at auction. Both Freud and Hockney are among Britain’s most acclaimed artists. Five phone bidders from New York, London and Asia ...
Watch as our Professional Oil Paint Ambassador Greg Mason talks us through the difficult task of painting a portrait in 4 hours. Greg takes us back to his time on Sky Portrait Artist of the Year to show us his processes in how to tackle this challenge in 4 simple steps. source
A portrait of David Hockney by Lucian Freud, two of the UK’s most coveted artists, will be featured in Sotheby’s upcoming modern British art evening sale in London, where it is expected to fetch £8 million-£12 million ($11 million–$17 million). It will be among the top lots to be offered in the sale, which is scheduled to take place on June 29 at the ...
The last surviving contemporary portrait of Catherine de’ Medici, queen consort and wife of king Henry II of France, will return to its former home in London. According to a report by the Guardian, the rarely seen painting, which dates to 1561 and shows Catherine with four of her children, will go on view at Strawberry Hill House in the British capital, where it ...
When New York–based artist Esteban Jefferson first visited the Petit Palais in Paris, in 2014, it was neither the nineteenth-century French paintings nor the Etruscan vases that caught his eye, but two mysterious portrait busts of anonymous Black figures placed behind the information and ticket desk. While most of the other artworks on display at the museum were accompanied by extensively researched wall texts, ...
A Pablo Picasso painting from 1952 that depicts one of his muses, artist Françoise Gilot, will be offered at Sotheby’s in an Impressionist and modern art evening auction in New York on May 12. Titled Femme assise en costume vert, the work is now on view at Sotheby’s galleries in London through April 30, and will go to its final location at the house’s New ...
