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‘Picasso.mania’ Highlights the Artist’s Enduring Impact @ Grand Palais
‘Picasso.mania’ Highlights the Artist’s Enduring Impact @ Grand Palais

‘Picasso.mania’ Highlights the Artist’s Enduring Impact @ Grand Palais

‘Picasso.mania’ at Paris’s Grand Palais looks at the breadth and length of Picasso’s influence through 400 works by 75 artists such as Warhol, Johns, Pei-Ming, Basquiat and many others.  For the full review, click HERE.  

Reflecting the Real
Reflecting the Real

Reflecting the Real

Our Reflecting the Real exhibition opens today and will run through October 23.  

‘Fragonard amoureux: galant et libertin’ Review – WSJ
‘Fragonard amoureux: galant et libertin’ Review – WSJ

‘Fragonard amoureux: galant et libertin’ Review – WSJ

Fragonard amoureux: galant et libertin the delightful, informative exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, through Jan. 24, 2016. For Karen Wilkin’s full coverage, click HERE.  

Painting of the Day (SOLD): Todd Casey’s “Moscow Mule and Postcard”
Painting of the Day (SOLD): Todd Casey’s “Moscow Mule and Postcard”

Painting of the Day (SOLD): Todd Casey’s “Moscow Mule and Postcard”

Source: Moscow Mule and Postcard – here is one by the contemporary American artist Todd Casey that has just landed at its new home.  

Comments on the Art Market: Volume 178
Comments on the Art Market: Volume 178

Comments on the Art Market: Volume 178

Source: Newsletter Archives – Volume 178 of our Comments on the Art Market was just posted to our web site.  We cover the upcoming Reflecting the Real exhibition, New about our artists, Stocks, Tales from the Dark Side, Really and Art … More…

Painting of the Day (NEW – AVAILABLE) Noah Layne’s “Circle of Lemons”
Painting of the Day (NEW – AVAILABLE) Noah Layne’s “Circle of Lemons”

Painting of the Day (NEW – AVAILABLE) Noah Layne’s “Circle of Lemons”

A beautiful new work by Canadian-American realist artist, Noah Layne,  “Circle of Lemons.”  

Painting of the Day (AVAILABLE): Gen Paul’s “Le Grenouillère”
Painting of the Day (AVAILABLE): Gen Paul’s “Le Grenouillère”

Painting of the Day (AVAILABLE): Gen Paul’s “Le Grenouillère”

Source: Le Grenouillère – we just added this amazing work by the 20th century School of Paris artist Gen Paul (1895-1975) to our available online inventory.  The scene depicted – La Grenouillère – was a popular middle-class resort consisting of a spa, … More…

PETA Sues on Behalf of a Monkey!
PETA Sues on Behalf of a Monkey!

PETA Sues on Behalf of a Monkey!

I am sorry, but some things are just really stupid and suing a photographer for using selfie images of a monkey ranks among the more stupid.  Don’t people have better things to do with their time and money?  To read … More…

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Julien Dupré’s “Harvesters Loading the Cart”
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Julien Dupré’s “Harvesters Loading the Cart”

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Julien Dupré’s “Harvesters Loading the Cart”

Source: Harvesters Loading the Cart – Here is one from our old sold archives by the 19th century French Realist artist Julien Dupré (1851-1910).  

Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, at the Courtauld
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, at the Courtauld

Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, at the Courtauld

Short review of the current show at the Courtauld Gallery – “Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat” that runs through January 17.  I did find it interesting that her ‘copy’ of Seurat’s The Bridge at Courbevoie was done from a photo in … More…

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Kenneth Noland’s “Quiet Night”
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Kenneth Noland’s “Quiet Night”

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Kenneth Noland’s “Quiet Night”

Source: Quiet Night – from our Old Sold archives, here is a 1963 Color Field work by the 20th century American artist Kenneth Noland ((1924-2010).    

‘Mark Rothko: A Retrospective’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
‘Mark Rothko: A Retrospective’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

‘Mark Rothko: A Retrospective’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

For those fans of Mark Rothko’s works, here is Lance Esplund’s take on the current exhibition (which runs through January 24) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.  As the subtitle states: the exhibition offers a look inside Rothko’s artistic process … More…

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Antoine Blanchard’s “Hôtel de Ville and La Place de Grève”
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Antoine Blanchard’s “Hôtel de Ville and La Place de Grève”

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Antoine Blanchard’s “Hôtel de Ville and La Place de Grève”

Source: Hôtel de Ville and La Place de Grève – Here is another for our Then & Now fans … Antoine Blanchard’s depiction of the Hotel de Ville with Notre Dame in the background and a 2015 photograph of the same … More…

Bone fragments may belong to woman thought to be Mona Lisa model
Bone fragments may belong to woman thought to be Mona Lisa model

Bone fragments may belong to woman thought to be Mona Lisa model

Could they be the fragments of the woman thought to be the model for Leonardo’s Mona Lisa?  Guess so, but we will probably never know.  For the full story, click HERE.    

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Henriette Browne’s “Le ducat”
Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Henriette Browne’s “Le ducat”

Painting of the Day (SOLD archives): Henriette Browne’s “Le ducat”

Source: Le ducat – from our 1986 sold archives, a very nice Judaica work by the 19th century French artist Henriette Browne (1829-1901).    

The Billionaire (Rybolovlev), the Picassos and a $30 Million Gift to Shame a Middleman (Bouvier)
The Billionaire (Rybolovlev), the Picassos and a $30 Million Gift to Shame a Middleman (Bouvier)

The Billionaire (Rybolovlev), the Picassos and a $30 Million Gift to Shame a Middleman (Bouvier)

Interesting twist in the Rybolovlev / Bouvier skirmish … there is a lot of money to be made at the upper levels of the art market and a lot a issues that can arise.  Greed always seems to be the … More…