The Cut Melon,” a rare oval-shaped painting by the 18th-century French artist Jean Siméon Chardin, will hang on the Fort ...

The Dutch "old mistress" was renowned in her own lifetime. But since her death 275 years ago, her legacy has been largely forgotten ...

The Kimbell Art Museum has acquired a rare 18th-century French painting previously caught at the center of a lawsuit between ...

The Kimbell was outbid last year by an Italian investor who bought this painting for $26 million. But that wasn’t the end of ...

The still life is anything but still. Judith Linhares, “Housekeeping” (2024), oil on linen Linhares’s narratives present both whimsy and menace. The two largest paintings (each around 67 ...

On folding chairs, we’d look at Dutch still-life paintings and Northern Renaissance portraits, Baroque sculptures and ancient Chinese scrolls. We’d spend the first minutes observing the given ...

In the attic, an unfinished painting sat waiting for its creator to return: Still Life of a Mantelpiece and Mirror with Roses ... his fridge was intermittently a storage facility for stinking fish ...

Created in 1881, the work 'Basket with Peaches and Grapes' will be the focus of an appeal procedure in Paris on Thursday in ...

Her still-life paintings in muted pastel earth tones often feature subjects with distorted disproportions. A woman faces away from the viewer with exaggerated back muscles bulging off the canvas ...

Her father encouraged her artistic ambitions by placing her under the apprenticeship of Willem van Aelst, a still life specialist. Ruysch’s paintings exhibit a careful attention to detail ...