Sean Scully, "Heart of Darkness" (1982), oil on canvas, 8 x 12 feet. Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Society for Contemporary Art (image courtesy the Art Institute ...

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted a portrait of a sculptor friend, high-tech imaging tools have revealed another portrait hidden beneath it. The concealed image reveals a woman, the ...

A previously unknown work has been analyzed and revealed using scientific research underneath an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Tiziano Vecellio, better known as Titian. The painting ...

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, ...

Hidden for decades from public view, the artist's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it so valuable? A mysterious and relatively little-known painting by ...

In the 1950s, Jonah Kinigstein was on the verge of making it big in New York's art world. He won a Fulbright to Rome. His paintings got into the Whitney Museum's annual show of contemporary art (the ...

England is the only advanced, industrialized country that I can think of where portraiture and postwar painting have become nearly interchangeable. One cannot think of painting in postwar England ...

In 2019, Dulwich Picture Gallery, England’s oldest such public institution, nestled in a leafy south London suburb, was the target of a robbery. At midnight, a man broke into the plain brick building ...

The page has already collected thousands of followers just one day after first being made. The 30-year-old showed off a series of her works in an Instagram post on Monday - and had plenty of fans for ...

Art is subjective. No one person can look at one piece and interpret it the same as another. Each and every brush stroke, line and dot holds meaning. And yet, despite that powerful message, I have a ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...