A swagger portrait by the Bolognese painter Ludovico Carracci, Portrait of Carlo Alberto Rati Opizzoni in armour, came out on top at £4.3m (£5m with fees) during Christie’s Old Master evening sale last night, which totalled £25.8m (£31.1m with fees)

The fact that the larger-than-life Romantic poet-novelist Victor Hugo also made drawings of serious quality and feverish intensity was appreciated by artists at the time like Van Gogh and Delacroix, and is well known to French scholars today. But word

Gallery genesis presents the solo exhibition of paintings by Costas Siafakas entitled "The universe fell into the mirror with the handmade darkness". The people sleep in mighty, silent winds. Before him, his details awaken: the index finger of the hand, which

Edvard Munch’s Madonna toes the line between sensational and spiritual. One of the Norwegian artist’s most controversial paintings, the 1894 work depicts a naked woman arching her back, long dark hair spilling down her shoulders as she raises one arm and stretches

  Avramidou Smaragda was born in Istanbul in 1946 where he started taking painting lessons with the painter Tatiana Grigoriadou. In 1975 he left the city and settled permanently in Athens. He apprenticed in the workshop of Gianna Persaki and after

The new National Gallery-Museum of Alexandros Soutsos inaugurates its exhibition activity with an imposing exhibition dedicated to "The art of portraiture in the Louvre collections". The Exhibition "In Search of Immortality - The Art of Portrait in the Louvre Collections", which

It’s hard to believe that “Suzanne Valadon: Model, Painter, Rebel” at the Barnes Foundation is the first American museum show for this sensational French painter. Born in Bessines-sur-Gartempe and raised in Paris by a single mother, Valadon (1865-1938) began drawing at

How did the city become your main subject? Have you always been fascinated with urban spaces? I’ve been fascinated with them since I moved to New York — wherever I am is sort of what I draw. Because I’ve been in

The Sight-Size Drawing Method Simply put, the sight-size method is the practice of painting or drawing at the same scale your eye sees your subject. When you look at your subject and drawing, they should be identical in size. Often artists