A paternity test has disproved a Spanish woman's claim that she is the daughter of surrealist artist Salvador Dali, the deceased painter's foundation announced Wednesday. The Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation said in a written statement that the Madrid court that ordered the DNA test informed it ...
Two watercolor paintings of "The Little Prince," the world-famous golden-haired creation of French polymath Antoine de Saint-Exupery, fetched more than half a million euros at auction in Paris on Wednesday. The first work, an A4-sized image of the children's character watching a sunset, smashed its ...
A Japanese billionaire bought a Basquiat masterpiece for $110.5 million in New York on Thursday, setting a new auction record for the 20th century great nearly 30 years after his death, Sotheby's said. The 1982 "Untitled" of a skull-like head in oil-stick, acrylic and spray ...
Many painters struggle to get their work viewed but Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra won't have a problem — his most recent work is billed as the biggest in the world. The prolific Kobra takes as his canvas the external walls of the Cacau Show ...
Brushstrokes in paintings could help early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases, according to a study published on Thursday of works by famous sufferers such as Salvador Dali and Willem De Kooning. The analysis was carried out on 2,092 paintings, including those of two artists with Parkinson's ...
Willem de Kooning's "Untitled XXV" was sold late Tuesday at Christie's in New York for $66.3 million, a record for a work by the abstract artist and for post-war contemporary art. The imposing work, which measures 7 by 6.5 feet (2 by 2.2 meters), was ...
Six works of art at a Dutch national museum may have been created by famed ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, a researcher at the museum says. Five of the Edo Period artworks are paintings that used Western-style watercolor techniques and are believed to have been influenced ...
The opening of the Clara Francis Gallery on Wednesday in a renovated Harlem storefront was an exciting moment for Haile King Rubie. It was the first solo show for the 26-year-old painter, whose expressive works are all the more remarkable because he was born ...
The elusive street artist Banksy may have been unmasked by mathematics. Scientists have applied a type of modeling used to track down criminals and map disease outbreaks to identify the graffiti artist, whose real name has never been confirmed. The technique, known as geographic profiling, is ...
Nagano painter on peace, purity and cultural influences worldwide
An exhibition of 150 important Japanese artworks is being held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It includes a statue of the Buddhist deity known as Fudo Myoo by sculptor Kaikei, who lived in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. The collection ...
An 18th-century painting long considered lost has been found in the home of a California lawyer whose family had held the piece for generations but was unaware of its origins. The painting, lauded as a masterpiece of colonial Mexican art depicting mixed-race families of the ...
