A painting by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that’s been missing for 42 years has turned up in a New York City warehouse. Lichtenstein’s black-and-white “Electric Cord” disappeared in 1970 after being sent out for restoration by owner Leo Castelli and never returned.
The painting "Odalisque in Red Pants" made by the French master Henri Matisse and stolen from a Venezuelan museum more than 10 years ago, has been recovered in an undercover operation at a Miami hotel, authorities said on Wednesday. The painting is valued at approximately $3 million.
In cooperation with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam The Kunsthal Rotterdam proudly presents a major retrospective of photographs that the Rotterdam-born photographer George Hendrik Breitner (1857-1923) took around 1900.
An art expert disputes the origin of Trumpeting Putto, Gustav Klimt’s ceiling fresco that was rediscovered last week in Austria, saying it was more likely painted by his brother Ernst Klimt.
A bronze sculpture by Henry Moore (1898-1986), estimated to be worth up to £500,000 (781,000 USD), has been stolen from the sculptor's former home. Henry Moore is regarded as UK's most famous sculptor.
The identity of the successful bidder for “The Scream," the $119.9-million Edvard Munch pastel auctioned off at an exciting Sotheby's evening sale on May 2, hasn't been revealed since it was sold. According to the Wall Street Journal the art market mystery of the year may just have been solved.
Tate Media launched on 2 July 2002 an online exhibition entitled ‘The Gallery of Lost Art’. It tells the stories of artworks that have disappeared, destroyed, stolen or discarded over the past 100 years and no longer can be seen.
Art conservation and restoration experts recently concluded weeks of tests on the famous self-portrait of one of history’s greatest geniuses Leonardo da Vinci, sketched in the early 1500s when he was in his 60s.
A drawing by surrealist painter Salvador Dalí has been stolen from an art gallery in Manhattan on Tuesday, by a man who took it off the wall and carried it out in a black shopping bag.
The 43rd edition of Art Basel in Switzerland closed yesterday. This year, the fair again attracted 65,000 art collectors, dealers, artists, curators and art lovers from around the world.
Last weekend the exhibition ‘Impressionism: Sensation & Inspiration’ opened at the Hermitage Amsterdam. The exhibition shows world-famous Impressionist paintings from the vast collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
The exhibition ‘Hopper’ brings together the largest and most ambitious selection of works by American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) ever to be shown in Europe.
