1. A triptych signed Francis Bacon: 84.6 million dollars The pictorial triptych was to Francis Bacon what serigraphy was to Andy Warhol....

In 1907, a terrible murder shook the city of London. On September 12, a 21-year-old prostitute, Emily Dimmock (known as Phyllis), was...

In 1968, a young dramatist with radical ideas attempted to assassinate Andy Warhol (1928–1987). In the spring of 1968, Andy Warhol was...

He never stops expanding his empire. Emmanuel Perrotin, one "The ArtReview Power 100" is ranked #3 gallerist most influential worldwide,...

The main subject of his theatrical works depicting characters having their throats cut or stabbed against a dark background, crime was...

Wars have also had a role to play. The Katanga war in Zaire (1960-1963) and that of Biafra in Nigeria (1967-1970) delivered thousands of...

When President Macron promised to return the works of art to Africa, he embarked on a process whose outcome will undoubtedly be long,...

Trump is only a symptom of profound social unrest, as more than 71 million Americans, 8 million more than in 2016, voted for him despite...

1/7 The art of forgery dates back to the most ancient times when art, essentially religious, took a primordial place in men's lives from...

Apart from Fautrier, Klein, and a few others, most modern and contemporary painters have unconsciously plagiarized masters, starting with...

The Millet-Van Gogh exhibition, which took place from September 1998 to January 1999, gave Benoit Landais, self-proclaimed specialist of...

Like thefts, fakes are the obsession of amateurs. In both cases, they need to protect themselves or from themselves. But while it is...

Instagram, influencers at service of fine art. At the National Library of France, the retrospective "Tolkien, voyage to Middle-earth",...

The art of plagiarism experienced spectacular development from the moment the art market took off at the end of the 1970s. Until then, it...

1/ Art can be insured "What is imposed by conventional insurance contracts is not adapted to the realities of the art world", explains...

8 apps showing you the history of a painting, the value of the painting, the location, anecdotes and quotes, etc. A mine of information...

Penniless, he began to make pastiches imitating famous artists such as Picasso, Matisse, or Modigliani that he managed to sell to naive...

Concretely committing to a better representation of cultural diversity is necessary. Nevertheless, the strategies deployed by individual...

He then explained to the investigators that he had used real canvases from the 17th century that he had methodically stripped to make his...

As long as the Church ensured its control over art, there were, therefore, few fakes in circulation, but when kings and princes began to...