The hidden self-portrait was covered by layers of glue ... Prof Frances Fowle, senior curator of French Art at the National Galleries of Scotland, described the discovery as "an incredible gift ...

Her own self-portrait reveals how a woman sees herself ... portraits to claim her place among the current masters of French art. Between 1782 and 1783 Adélaïde showed six portraits at the ...

Serge Gainsbourg, the French pop poet and provocateur ... in the last decade of the artist’s celebrated career. But it was ...

He dreamed of becoming an icon painter, but became famous for his vivid images of peasant women and portraits of Lenin and ...

Plus: satellite fairs boost contemporary art; Sotheby’s opens new Paris HQ; Komunuma draws gallerists to suburbs ...

Before the fair opens later this week, must-see highlights include an iconic film-maker’s erotic sketches and a pivotal Ana ...

What do Margaret Thatcher, Walter Raleigh and William Gladstone have in common? Time’s up; they’ve all recently been removed ...

The influential French ... art," she is quoted by AFP as saying in an interview in 2011. "At first I thought, 'I'm going to write poems'. And then, 'we need images' with these poems. I started ...

Artists like Andre Breton and Salvador Dali aimed to create a better future. In his iconic 1931 painting "The Persistence of ...

Dame Tracey Emin says male artists peak in their forties, but women have the ability to create powerful works for their entire lives. The Turner Prize-winning artist, 61, made the observation on The ...

With over 1.5 million art objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it’s no wonder that you’ll need weeks, if not months, to explore the most interesting collections housed there.

Seventy-five years after the artist’s death, the grotesque masquerades he painted aren’t so far from the manipulated faces of ...