Andrey Golubev, Red spinner, 1930. Cotton Print, direct printing chintz. 17.5 x 27 cm. The Burilin Ivanovo Museum of Local History Photo © Provided with assistance from the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO. Spanning the 15 years between the start of the Russian Revolution (1917) and Stalin’s clampdown (1932) on the flourishing new ‘art of […]
To coincide with the first anniversary of the EU Referendum, Grayson Perry’s exhibition ‘The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever’, will be held at the Serpentine Gallery in June 2017. Centre piece will be 2 enormous pots decorated with ideas, images, phrases and photographs contributed by the public, each celebrating the diametrically opposed views of pro-Brexit and […]
Tove Jansson, Sleeping in the Roots, 1930s, gouache and Indian ink on paper, 22.1 x 26.7 cm, Tampere Art Museum, Moominvalley. Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis. The UK’s first major retrospective of Tove Jansson’s works, including not only some of her Moomin illustrations and comic strips but paintings spanning her work over 50 years, arrives at […]
David Hockney Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) 1972 Private Collection © David Hockney Born in Bradford in July 1937 the fourth of five children, Hockney remains one of the most popular and influential British artists of the 20th century. One of the founders of the British pop art movement of the 1960s, in 1964 […]
The major new exhibition, Cézanne Portraits, will bring together over 50 of Cézanne’s portraits from collections across the world. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) painted almost 200 portraits, including 26 of himself and 29 of his wife, Hortense Fiquet. Cézanne is considered one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth century. Generally categorised as a ‘Post-Impressionist’, he has […]
A 7.5 x 5” (19.3 x 13 cm) pen and ink sketch found by a retired French doctor among his late father’s collection of unframed drawings is believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci. The work depicts the muscled St. Sebastian bound to a tree, hand and foot, eyes pleading towards heaven. Da Vinci referred to eight drawings of […]
Five Drunken Kings Return on Horses, a 2-metre-long hand scroll by Ren Renfa, was sold at a Beijing Auction for US$44m (303 million yuan) earlier this week [4 December 2016], a record for the highest paid Chinese artwork sold at auction in 2016. Ren Renfa was a prominent painter of horses and also a high-ranking official in charge of water controls […]
Christie’s online auction of Medieval and Renaissance manuscript illuminations, including survivals from secular and religious texts, leaves from renowned codices such as the Hungerford Hours and the Bessarion antiphonals. Featuring works of Attavante degli Attavanti, Bonifacio Bembo, Neri da Rimini and Don Simone Camaldolese. Estimates start at £300. Ends 8 December! click here to access […]
Medieval murals in Stratford recently revealed on a church wall (lime-washed over by Shakespeare’s father, perhaps to preserve them instead of destroying them as he was instructed to by the Protestant town council who saw them as idolatrous) portray an England in thrall to devils and death (find out more). — ♦ — KidsArt!™ teaches children […]
