A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt became the most expensive work of modern art ever sold at auction, fetching $236 ...
A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The ...
The result at Sotheby’s in New York on Thursday reflects steady demand for art by women that experts believe has plenty of ...
The self-portrait is among the few Kahlo pieces that have remained in private hands outside Mexico, where her body of work ...
In its catalogue note, Sotheby’s said the painting “offers a spectral meditation on the porous boundary between sleep and ...
Vivian Warby A Gustav Klimt portrait made history this week when it sold for an astonishing $236.4 million (around R4 billion) at an auction in New York, becoming the most expensive modern artwork ...
The Huntington acquires the Civil War-era Winslow Homer masterwork, "The Sutler's Tent"; Robert Therrien at the Broad; and ...
Barbra Streisand has revealed she "regrets" selling a rare Gustav Klimt painting. Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the ...
Later in the evening, an 18-karat-gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana ...
"Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer," which played a role in protecting the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust, sold ...