A rare painting by the street artist Banksy, inspired by the recently deceased Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, sold for nearly 4.3 million pounds ($5.5 million) Tuesday, according to auction house ...
Art historians often wish that Renaissance painters could shell out secrets of the craft. Now, scientists may have cracked one using chemistry and physics. Around the turn of the 15th century in Italy ...
The artist’s abstract work “Juin-Octobre 1985” is now the most expensive painting ever to go under the hammer in Hong Kong, according to Sotheby’s. It was a record-breaking evening at the auction ...
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology collaborated with the National Gallery of Art and other institutions to study the deterioration of an oil painting, entitled Gypsy ...
Thailand’s oil painting reproduction sector is gaining international relevance as demand increases for handcrafted artwork ...
WHEN AN OIL painting is dried and finished, it is supposed to stay that way. Yet when Ida Bronken, an art conservator, began to prepare Jean-Paul Riopelle’s “Composition 1952” for display in 2006, she ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Oil paint is simple. At its most basic, it's just a mixture of oil and pigment. But depending on the color and quality, a liter of this paint could ...
A 1921 oil painting by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is set to be sold at Phillips Auction house on June 23 and estimates for the long-thought-lost painting are said to be over $2 ...
One day, when he was seven years old, Sabir Chopuroglu's parents brought home a small bottle of petroleum from Naftalan, the Soviet sanatorium famed for its medical treatments involving bathing in oil ...