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 ...

An enigmatic oil painting bought at an estate sale has broken an auction record after it was confirmed to be the work of a celebrated American surrealist named Gertrude Abercrombie.

When a fire nearly destroyed Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019, a collection of 17th-century masterpieces was hanging in its dim side chapels. Those paintings, known as the Mays, were recovered ...

“La Réception au Château,” a meticulous framed oil on canvas depicting lavishly attired guests reveling by the water outside a grand country home, painted by nineteenth-century French artist Adrien ...

Around 2014, in his apartment in Harlem, a former real estate agent named Jeffrey Ventura Morell installed a large portrait of an 18th-century gentleman in his kitchen — right above his dishwasher, ...

The wife-and-husband directing team of D.K. Welchman and Hugh Welchman advance their landmark oil-painted animation technique with Poland's international Oscar entry. How do you follow the ...

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