The painting that introduced the movie “Star Wars” to the world nearly 50 years ago sold at auction for $3.875 million ...

To paint a portrait from the inside-out means to stop chasing surface detail and start understanding the living structure beneath the skin. This video reveals how true realism begins long before color ...

Hidden for decades from public view, the artist's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it so valuable? A mysterious and relatively little-known painting by ...

“The Dream (The Bed)” by the Mexican artist sold for $54.7 million. Photo: Stefan Ruiz/Sotheby’s Mexican painter Frida Kahlo became the most expensive female artist at auction on Thursday when Sotheby ...

A Gustav Klimt painting sold for a historic $236.4 million Tuesday night at Sotheby’s first auction in its new home in New York’s Breuer building, making it the world’s most expensive modern artwork ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth ...

The Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt's sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York for $236.4m(£179m), becoming the second most expensive work of art ever sold art auction ...

A new study of Rembrandt's self-portraits provides more evidence to theories that the 17th-century artist, among other Old Master painters, used optics to produce his remarkably accurate works. Left: ...

The BBC last night featured an unexpected art critic who spoke with great eloquence about J.M.W. Turner's painting Falls Of The Rhine At Schaffhausen. He drew our attention to the movement and ...