When Christie’s puts Pablo Picasso’s storied 1955 painting Les Femmes d’Alger (Version “O”) on the auction block with an estimate of $140 million next week, it may make history in more ways than one.

JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...

The art market continues to hum, despite a torrent of natural and geopolitical disasters that could unnerve confidence in such a psychologically sensitive market. But this season, there’s almost an ...

“Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” a gorgeous show of roughly 130 works at the National Gallery of Art organized by its curators Mary Morton and Kimberly A. Jones, marks the 150th anniversary of ...

Impressionist sales at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London this past week featured the usual handful of headline-grabbing prices—a £25 million ($39 million) Gustav Klimt and a £21 million ($34 million) ...

New York – Christie’s is pleased to announce further highlights from its major Spring sales of Impressionist and Modern Art in New York this May. Works by the most celebrated artists of the era will ...

The Impressionist and Modern Art Day Sale in New York offers a curated selection of paintings and sculptures by the leading international artists of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Highlights this ...

The painting, formerly owned by Andre Lefevre, a prominent collector of 20th century art, is estimated to sell for $24-32 million. “Peinture (Étoile Bleue) comes to the market,” said Helena Newman, ...

From The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to The Getty Center in Los Angeles, these are the 10 best art museums in the U.S.