Klimt's “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust. It broke a record at auction previously set by an Andy Warhol potrait of Marilyn Monroe. View o ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

A 16th century painting of Thomas Howard, the 4th Duke of Norfolk, has become the most expensive Elizabethan portrait to date ...

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...

A watershed moment for the November auctions arrived tonight at Sotheby's, where Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer (1914–16) sold for $236M after 20 minutes of bidding, eclipsing the artist ...

Portrait of Temple Grandin” by David Lenz, oil on canvas, 2022. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired ...

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 ...

When Amy Sherald was selected to paint the official portrait of Michelle Obama eight years ago, many people in the art world didn't know who she was. They do now. At 52, Sherald has become one of ...

A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for $54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction.

His blonde hair already parted far to the side, a 20-year-old Andy Warhol thrusts a finger up his protuberant nostril, revealing the wrangling of defiance and precarity that imbued his tangled ...

One of the biggest price tags at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach is attached to one of its smallest works. A Frida Kahlo ...

Three years after Barack and Michelle Obama’s official portraits were unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the paintings have arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago, where the ...