100 years of De Stijl, the most important art movement you’ve never heard of
Well, I cannot agree that it is a movement I never hear of … seem to remember it being a big part of my art history education. However, if you weren’t lucky enough to take a series of art history classes, … More…
AVAILABLE: Rubens Santoro’s “Scuola Grande di San Marco and the Ponte Cavallo…”
Source: Scuola Grande di San Marco and the Ponte Cavallo on the Rio dei Mendicanti, Venice – this recent addition to our available online inventory is one of the finest and largest works by Rubens Santoro (1859-1942) to have appeared on … More…
How American Gothic became an icon
Is Grant Wood’s famous painting serious or comic? It is this ambiguity that has helped made it one of the most parodied images in art history, writes Fisun Güner. American after the Fall: Painting in the 1930’s opens at the … More…
Art Market’s Slump Gets Worse in 2016
Kelly Crow begins her article with: The art market sank into a deeper slump last year, with London-based auction house Christie’s International PLC saying Wednesday it sold £4 billion, or $5.4 billion, of art last year, a 27% decline.. And this is … More…
SOLD: Guy Wiggins’s “Fifth Avenue at the Library”
Source: Fifth Avenue at the Library – this amazing Guy C. Wiggins (1883-1962) of a snowy New York Public Library, recently made its way to a new home … a perfect image for today! According to Wikipedia: on May 23, 1911, the … More…
Oprah Said to Snag $150 Million Selling Klimt to Chinese Buyer
AVAILABLE: Louis Valtat’s “La Colline a Choisel”
Source: La Colline a Choisel – this 1930’s landscape by the French Post-Impressionist artist Louis Valtat (1869-1952) has just been added to our available online inventory. Choisel is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. … More…
Met Museum Makes Images Available for Free
Now this is really impressive. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that 375,000 images from their collection (all of which are in the public domain) can now be accessed, downloaded and used free of charge. Since they were free, … More…