19 x 16.5 cm. (7.5 x 6.5 in.) ...

Monet painted this composition at the end of a decade marked by the impressionists’ sustained experimentation with still-life painting. His depiction of this pair of common fish is indebted to the ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Current group exhibitions In their last group exhibition, Chardin’s works were ...

French engravers were the finest available and French painters the most highly trained, and only Hogarth’s best painting would do (Hogarth shared several engravers with the great French painter ...

In the Chardin painting, the young bubble-blower is bent over the low wall, and a younger child is watching him. But Léon is standing up and more vulnerably alone — and his face rather than his ...

Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

Is Nabokov’s novel morally offensive? Patently, it is not. We live in a universe of treacherous choices, of corruption and ...

The artist’s works are the subject of two New York shows, at the Metropolitan Museum and the Jack Shainman Gallery. By Arthur Lubow A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one ...

Preview the Jameel Prize exhibition, coming to London's V&A, with a focus on moving image and digital media The winner of the V&A and Art Jameel’s seventh international award for contemporary art and ...

Stories of haunted paintings have circulated for centuries, and we love these tales because they suggest that the creative process can conjure something far darker than Vantablack. Do some ...

Sabrina Carpenter has been nominated for Best New Artist at the 2025 Grammys — even though she just dropped her sixth album. But how can the "Espresso" singer be eligible to win an award for her ...