She had the courage and stamina necessary to look beyond what was popular to create the soak-stain paintings that made her famous.
The art of horology is a storied craft. Among the intricate techniques practised within watchmaking, the use of enamel is one of the oldest and most precious, with several of the delicate techniques ...
and embroidery on canvas. Black here becomes a field of tension and silence, a surface that, thanks to the materiality of the technique, oscillates between painting and sculpture. The “sutures” ...
A René Magritte painting depicting an eerily lit streetscape has smashed the auction record for the Surrealist artist’s work.
Move over, Picasso, van Gogh and Warhol. With an inscrutable painting, the Belgian painter breaks a nine-figure threshold at ...
The emblematic, seminal work is expected to garner in excess of $50 million as part of the 20th Century Evening Sale.
Darkened trees pierce into white cumulus clouds lingering in a pastel-blue sky, as we gaze intently at a street scene ...
Rene Magritte’s painting "L’empire des lumières" fetched $121.2 million at Christie’s New York, a new record for the Belgian ...