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Sentence overturned for Picasso's electrician, convicted for possession of stolen artwork
France's highest appeal court has overturned the conviction of Pablo Picasso's former electrician and his wife, who were given suspended sentences for keeping 271 of his works in their garage for four decades. Pierre and Danielle Le Guennec were given two-year suspended jail sentences in ...
A painting by French Impressionist master Claude Monet that belonged to a Japanese collector but was lost for decades after World War II is now back in Tokyo, a museum official said Tuesday. The oil painting, around 2 meters long (about 6½ feet) and 4.2 ...
Japanese tycoon loans 1982 Basquiat masterpiece to Brooklyn for its museum debut
A Basquiat masterpiece, bought by a Japanese billionaire for a record $110.5 million, will make its museum debut this month, going on display in the artist's home borough of Brooklyn, New York. Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1982 "Untitled" has been virtually unseen in public and never previously ...
Two researchers in the Netherlands have raised doubts about a rare watercolor painting signed by Adolf Hitler, saying it appears more likely to be the work of a forger, a Dutch newspaper reported Wednesday. "It is very probably a fake Hitler" painting, Bart Droog and ...
Paintings created by an Indian elephant who enjoys wielding a brush were auctioned off by a Hungarian traveling circus on Saturday. Three of 42-year-old elephant Sandra's abstract canvasses, with colored lines flowing across them resembling rivers, fetched about 40,000 forints ($150) each. A painting depicting Sandra ...
Watercolor paintings of 'The Little Prince' sell for over €500,000 at Paris auction
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 ...
Dutch museum's paintings held up as Hokusai samples of Western-style technique
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 ...
Geographic profiling may reveal identlty of elusive artist Banksy
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 ...
Miwa Komatsu: 'It's absurd to accomplish anything by yourself'
Nagano painter on peace, purity and cultural influences worldwide
New York's Met showing 150 newly donated Japanese art treasures
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 ...
Valuable 18th-century painting rediscovered in California home
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 ...
