Category: Paintings

1036 Press Releases

  • Auction Industry

    A Rosa Bonheur from America

    This large canvas is reminiscent of Rosa Bonheur's most beautiful compositions. Acquired in the United States by its current owners, until recently it graced the walls of a château in the Bordeaux region. Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899), À la mare, le gardien de troupeaux, 1862, huile sur toile, signée et datée, 83 x 130 cm.Estimation : 20 000/30 000 €…

  • Artists

    Everest under the brush of Nicolas Roerich, artist-traveller

    The Russian painter's spellbinding landscapes are an invitation to travel, and are on offer at Cazo in Paris. Nicolas Roerich (1874-1947), Himalaya. Vue sur l’Everest, années 1930, tempera sur carton, monogrammé en bas à droite, 59 x 44,5 cm.Estimation : 40 000/60 000 € Adjugé : 162 500 € In 1925, Roerich…

  • Auction Industry

    Pierre Soulages: a 1956 painting bought in New York by architect Walter Netsch

    Presented in 1957 at the Kootz Gallery in New York, this work belongs to the period of maturity that Pierre Soulages reached in the mid-1950s. The artist, who had already exhibited regularly in the United States, asserted a painting style structured around matter and gesture, with no concessions to lyricism. Pierre…

  • Auction Industry

    An impeccable pedigree

    Henry Stull records the victory of the thoroughbred Broomstick in New York. From the collection of Marylou Whitney and John Hendrickson, the work combines racing history and art patronage. Henry Stull (1851-1913), Brighton Handicap (Broomstick First; Irish Lad Second), 1904, 69,8 x 90,2 cm.Estimation : 20 000/30 000 $ Self-taught, Henry Stull learned his trade on the job, working as…

  • Auction Industry, Press Release

    Unpaid at Christie's, Chardin's Melon enters Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum

    Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum has finally landed the Chardin still life it's been missing. On May 22, the Texas museum announced that it was able to exhibit Le Melon entamé (dated 1760), after reaching an agreement with the de Rothschild family, who had held it for a century and a half. Christie's…

  • Artists, Auction Industry

    Market News: Three Japanese artists to watch

    The young Japanese guard continues to set the international market alight, with Justin Caguiat (b. 1989), Kyne (b. 1988) and Yukimasa Ida (b. 1990) leading the way, according to the latest Artprice report on the contemporary art market. Dreampop (2023) fetched $681,800 at Christie's London Caguiat's hybrid, narrative style is driven by…

  • Auction Industry

    Masters of fine-art genres, from Picasso to Grandma Moses, have a meeting of the minds at Everard’s Oct. 28-30 Southern Estates & Collections Auction

    Featured: Emmi Whitehorse landscape, original Grandma Moses oils, rare and large Picasso pottery plate, Charles Schulz original strip art, ‘Savannah Blue’ sapphire ring SAVANNAH, Ga. – It has been said that “genius loves company,” and that could easily be the title of Everard’s October 28-30 Southern Estates & Collections Auction.…

  • Auction Industry, Press Release

    Native American Jewelry & Decorative Arts, Mexican Retablos, And More Go Up For Bid On Saturday, October 4, At Turner Auctions + Appraisals

    Live Online Sale Features 150+ Lots from Two Northern California Estates SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA, September 25, 2025 – Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Native American Jewelry & Decorative Arts, Mexican Retablos, and More on Saturday, October 4, 2025. Offering over 150 lots, almost all from two…

  • Auction Industry

    Talk of the Town: Juliens Auctions' August 12, 2025 The Larry King Collection

    Award winning personality Larry King (American, b. Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, 1933-2021) was a popular presenter, author, and philanthropist. He hosted The Larry King Show, a syndicated radio talk show from 1978-1994 and CNN's live, phone-in TV show Larry King Live From 1985-2010. A fearless interviewer and better listener, he once…

    Larry King | 18th Century French 'School of Jean-Marc Nattier' Painting
  • Auction Industry

    A Lé Phô screen, a work of youth and a national tribute

    Preserved in the descendants of its commissioners, this early piece of furniture by the Vietnamese painter is also one of his rare productions in lacquer, a material he used for only eight years. Lé Phô (1907-2001), Paysage du Tonkin, vers 1930, laque à rehauts d’or et d’argent, paravent à cinq panneaux, signé…

  • Auction Industry

    Henry Moret, an impressionist painter facing Breton nature, maritime or bucolic

    Through two landscapes, Henry Moret depicts an authentic Brittany. With his impressionistic touch, he pays tribute to a country to which he is intimately linked, inviting us to pure contemplation. Henry Moret (1856-1913), Rivière de Pont-Aven, Finistère, 1910, huile sur toile signée et datée, 50 x 61 cm.Estimation : 70 000/90 000 € Henry Moret's landscapes elude anecdote and…

  • People

    David Nahmad: The Man with 4,500 Paintings

    At age 78, the patriarch of the famous dynasty of dealers still has a remarkable memory for numbers. He looks back at the early beginnings of his modern art collection, now considered one of the most important in the world. © Melvyn Bourret At Giverny, you present 57 works from a…

  • Auction Result

    Doyle’s Mary Tyler Moore Auction Draws Active Bidders and Strong Results

    This June, collectors flocked to an exciting sale from Doyle that highlighted the personal collection of groundbreaking television icon Mary Tyler Moore. The 300-lot catalog, which included items personally owned by Moore in her Greenwich, Connecticut home, delivered strong results. Many lots soared above their high estimates as bidders competed…

  • Auction Industry

    Paul-César Helleu's Proustian Pastel that Once Belonged to Samuel Pozzi, the Father of Modern Gynecology

    Created in the latter part of the 19th century by Paul-César Helleu, Femme au miroir was for many years part of the collection of the flamboyant Dr. Pozzi, the father of modern gynecology. Paul-César Helleu (1859-1927), Femme au miroir, pastel on canvas, signed, 73 x 111 cm/28.74 x 43.7 in.Estimate: €50,000/80,000 Count…

  • Exhibitions

    Photo London, 10 Years Old!

    Despite a decade punctuated by Brexit and the Covid health crisis, the fair has managed to impose its dynamism. It is one of the leading photography events in Great Britain, a country where the market is reaching maturity. Julia Fullerton Batten (b. 1970), Bathing by Tower Bridge, print presented at Photo London's…

  • Auction Industry

    The Return of the School by Quiringh van Brekelenkam, from the Former Eugène Schneider Collection Rediscovered

    The unexpected resurgence of a previously unpublished painting by Van Brekelenkam proves, once again, that France was an essential haven for the reception of Dutch genre painting in the 18th and 19th centuries. Quiringh Gerritz Van Brekelenkam (c 1622-1630 - after 1669), The Return to School, oak panel, 58 x 51.5 cm/22.83…

  • Auction Industry

    Portraits of the Three French Kings, Louis XIV, XV and XVI, from an Occitan Collection

    The dispersal of a gallery of royal portraits, notably Hyacinthe Rigaud's famous image of Louis XIV, sheds light on the mechanisms used to disseminate the image of monarchs during the Ancien Régime French School, Workshop of Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659-1743), Louis XIV en costume de sacre, canvas, 244 x 162 cm/88.1 x 63.77 in…

  • Culture

    A Portrait Attributed to Caravaggio on Show for the First Time in Rome

    It's an event that has art historians agog: the exhibition in Rome of a portrait attributed to Caravaggio never before shown in a museum. A unique opportunity to admire and explore a crucial milestone in the artist's career. Attributed to Michelangelo Merisi, aka Caravaggio (1571-1610), Presumed portrait of Maffeo Barberini, oil on canvas, private…

  • Auction Industry

    Murillo: A Spanish Painting Owned by an English Lord

    The recent history of this Ecce Homo is worthy of a British-style detective story, but it also reveals much about the mysteries still in store for the Seville painter. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), Ecce Homo, oil on canvas, 99 x 73 cm/38.9 x 28.74 in, on the back, on the stretcher, handwritten annotation in black…

  • Auction Industry

    Greuze and His Beautiful Heads

    The order of values was respected, with the goddess Diana towering over the pretty nymph Callisto. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), Diane, 1761, oil on canvas, 46.5 x 38.5 cm/18.30 x 15.15 in.Result: €520,000 Jean-Baptiste Greuze certainly wasn't expected in this field. Nevertheless, the painter whose work reflects a certain return to morality has given his…