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Rubens Painting, Lost for Centuries, Heads to the Auction Block

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie October 26, 2022October 27, 2022

The work, whose whereabouts were unknown until a French family discovered it in their collection, could sell for up to $35 million.

Posted inArt

Longing to Know More About David Bomberg, Who Blazed Like a Comet Through London’s Stuffy Art Scene

by Michael Glover January 29, 2020

Young Bomberg and the Old Masters, presented in a finite form, could have been so much bigger, more ambitious, and more intellectually adventurous.

Posted inIn Brief

A Sotheby’s Partnership Brings Together Old Master Paintings and Streetwear

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

The limited-edition collaboration between the auction house and streetwear site Highsnobiety brands t-shirts and hoodies with Old Master paintings from Sotheby’s upcoming Masters Week 2020.

Posted inArt

What Happened When a Long-Lost Michelina Wautier Painting Failed to Sell at Christie’s

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan December 20, 2018December 19, 2018

A recently discovered work by a long-overlooked Baroque painter didn’t attract the interest that Christie’s prestigious Old Masters auction seemed to expect.

Posted inArt

Victoria Beckham Spices Up Her Mayfair Boutique with Old Masters from Sotheby’s

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan June 28, 2018

Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham’s London shop is hosting an art display of paintings from Sotheby’s Old Master sale.

Posted inNews

Forgotten Old Master Painting Rediscovered in Iowa Storeroom

by Sarah Rose Sharp April 4, 2018March 22, 2020

An unusual detail helped scholars attribute the painting to Otto van Veen: “The rosy cheeks on the model … And not the cheeks on the face.”

Posted inArt

Beyoncé’s Pregnancy Photos Cast Her as a Venus for the Black Diaspora

by John Bowles February 10, 2017February 22, 2017

Embracing and reinterpreting cultural traditions from which black people have historically been excluded, Awol Erizku reimagines Beyoncé into an idealization that has typically been reserved for white women.

Posted inNews

Express Your Feelings with Emoji Characters from Old Master Paintings

by Claire Voon October 28, 2016October 29, 2016

If you can’t say it with words, you can now say it with expressions from Old Masters paintings.

Posted inArt

Lessons from the Unfolding Old Masters Forgery Scandal

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan October 27, 2016October 26, 2016

The authenticity of recently “discovered” works purported to be by Frans Hals, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Orazio Gentileschi has been called into question, and they might only be the tip of the iceberg.

Posted inArt

The Artist Statements of the Old Masters

by John Seed August 4, 2015April 15, 2016

“If the great European artists of the past were alive today, what kinds of statements would they need to write to explain and justify their work?”

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The Merits of Old Masters’ B-Sides, at the Frick

by Peter Malone January 12, 2015April 15, 2016

Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery, on view in the East Gallery of the Frick Collection, is a gathering of ten paintings analogous to the cohort of masterpieces in the Frick’s adjacent West Gallery. Visitors are left free to consider each as representing a unique, if not significant moment in each artist’s career.

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Probing the Dark (and Silly) Side of Old and Modern Masters

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 10, 2014July 14, 2014

After yesterday’s Renaissance GIFs post, which featured the work of James Kerr, our readers alerted us to two other curious projects that remix Old Master paintings.

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