Let's explore the world's most expensive paintings and their impact on art history ... this masterpiece is a vivid example of de Kooning's signature style, blending abstract and figurative ...

Whether you admire the emotional canvases of the Italian Renaissance or get curious about contemporary art installations, art ...

A painting by a famous artist which was purchased for just $50 is expected to fetch an eye-watering amount when it goes on ...

While the most expensive paintings ever sold tend to be famous pieces everyone watches, some of them were rediscovered after years of being lost. Each painting has a fascinating story and offers lots ...

Wall St. Insights Some paintings go on private display after being sold.  Every painting on this list has sold for over $100 ...

A signature ... Pellerin Later Paleolithic artists mostly depicted herbivores, but the Chauvet painters often featured fierce predators, like these in the famous Great Panel.

It’s not uncommon for families to pass down prized possessions over the years, but it can be quite shocking to learn that one ...

The Met’s new exhibition on Siena—the first of its kind in America—shows how the possibilities of strange, colorful ooze ...

After being discovered by a junk dealer in Capri in 1962, this rolled-up oil painting may be a Pablo Picasso estimated to be ...

The Blue Boy has been in America for precisely 100 years The Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough's famous oil painting ... the most famous pictures in British art altogether," Gabriele Finaldi, the ...

Excellence is fairly routine, then, so I went in search of fare that was also unusual in some way. Here are 10 examples: ...