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Last update on 2/11/2016
Last update on 2/11/2016
The latest news in the History of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the 1930's
Hidden away in an attic, a painting by Vincent Van Gogh was recently rediscovered and was just unveiled at the Van Gogh Museum. This Sunset at Montmajour painted in 1888 dates from the artist's period in Arles. It belongs to a private collector (...)
An admirer of Eugène Delacroix, Vincent Van Gogh copied some of his works and was influenced by his theory of colors - a letter addressed to Théo on 3 or 4 November 1885 provides proof - noticing particularly the importance of vivacity and (...)
Over 1.6 million persons visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in 2011. The doors will now be closed for the next few months, from 24 September 2012 to 1st May 2013, for renovations. Certain spaces could not be left open to the public as the (...)
This Dutch museum had not acquired a Van Gogh work in the last five years but last 7 February, it finally purchased a gouache watercolor entitled The Silver Willow at Christie's London for £1,273,250 (including charges). Executed on 27 July 1882 (...)
At the forefront of modern pictorial trends, close to the art of Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh and Gauguin, Louis Anquetin underwent a conservative revolution towards 1894 returning to decorative historical painting influenced by the Old (...)
Alfred Stevens (Brussels, 1823-Paris, 1906) is still the most Parisian of the Belgian painters. His career during the second half of the 19th century was exceptionally successful and was closely linked to the figure of Parisian women during the (...)
