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One of the flagship sectors of the art market comprising works by artists from the late 19th century through to first half of the 20th century. This area includes works by Impressionist, Surrealist, Expressionist and Cubist painters.
Édouard Manet portrait in Welsh museum gets funding for restoration from TEFAF grant
28 August 2021The National Museum Wales has received a €20,000 (£17,130) grant to restore an Édouard Manet (1832-83) picture.
Ernst Nay's abstract painting is top result at Munich auction
09 August 2021'Doppelspindel-Rot', a monumental oil on canvas from 1967 by Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902-68), topped the latest evening sale of Modern and Contemporary art at Ketterer Kunst (25% buyer’s premium) in Munich.
French sales feature Indo-Chinese works with Hanoi link
19 July 2021What is known as Indo-Chinese art frequently comes up for auction in France, in part because this area of south-east Asia was formerly a French colony.
London sales are ‘best since pandemic’
05 July 2021The latest round of Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary art sales at Sotheby’s and Christie’s represented the highest overall total for a ‘London’ auction series since before the coronavirus pandemic.
Picasso and Mondrian paintings stolen in Greek art theft returned
01 July 2021Two paintings stolen from Greece's National Gallery in 2012 have been recovered and a builder has confessed to the crime, according to Reuters.
How De Stijl shaped Schmidt’s ideas
28 June 2021In 1922, Theo van Doesburg, gave a course at the Bauhaus in Weimar, devoted to the artists’ group De Stijl he had co-founded some five years before.
5 Questions: modern art dealer Liberté Nuti
28 June 2021One half of the master drawings gallery Härb Nuti, Liberté Nuti is a specialist in Modern and Impressionist art with a particular focus on works on paper. Härb Nuti is taking part in London Art Week, which runs from July 2-16.
The web shop window: Surrealist picture by Eileen Agar
28 June 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
Early avant-garde scene offered in German auction
28 June 2021The colour scheme and composition of 'Blauer Junge mit Sense' (Blue Boy with Scythe) appear almost psychedelic, but in fact the 4ft 8in x 6ft 8in (1.41 x 1.72cm) oil painting was executed in 1911.
Miró set to see in Mayfair
21 June 2021Mayfair Art Weekend (MAW) is back for an eighth annual event with a busy programme of exhibitions and talks planned.
Matisse drawing re-emerges in Aix-en-Provence auction
07 June 2021A charcoal drawing by Henri Matisse (1869-1954) that has not been seen since the major retrospective on the artist at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1948 is to be offered at auction in Aix-en-Provence.
Photography via a painted focus
31 May 2021The early 20th century German photographer August Sander has a legendary status, not least for his long-running series of documentary portraits, published under the title 'People of the 20th Century'.
Barbarity brings faith for Arthur Segal
31 May 2021Having spent seven years in Berlin, the Romanian artist Arthur Segal left Germany at the outbreak of the First World War.
The £36,000 tale of Maud Lewis and her $10 oils
24 May 2021A group of naive oils found boxed up during a house move drew strong interest at Hanson Holloway’s Ross (25% buyer’s premium), making a combined £36,000.
The web shop window: Giacometti's drawing of composer Stravinsky
24 May 2021Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.
London and Birmingham museums benefit from tax scheme for doctor’s portrait
22 May 2021The National Gallery in London and Birmingham’s Barber Institute of Fine Arts will both benefit from the acquisition of a portrait by German artist Lovis Corinth (1858-1925).
Flagship Modern and Contemporary art auctions return to form in New York
17 May 2021The latest flagship sales of Modern and Contemporary art in New York showed a return to some normality after a difficult 14 months.
Cortes’ Parisian street scene on offer
17 May 2021Among the fine art to be included in the May 29 sale at Fontaine’s in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, will be this Parisian street scene by the French artist Edouard Leon Cortes (1882-1969).
Swiss and German fine art highlights
10 May 2021Recent stand-out lots from salerooms in Basel, Zurich, Constance, Stuttgart and Dresden
Collecting the book as art
10 May 2021How the livre d’artiste can combine words and images beautifully – and be highly desirable
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