Paintings

Correspondence of the Art Dealers M. Knoedler & Co

A failed bid for Renaissance masterpieces is revealed in a collection of newly catalogued letters.

Silvia Caporaletti | December 29, 2014

How a frame conservator plays matchmaker between frames and paintings.

Steve Saldivar | December 5, 2014

For Manet, fashion and the femininity were metaphors for the skilled artifice of painting itself.

Scott Allan | November 25, 2014

This beautiful painting contains the germ of modern art as we know it.

Timothy Potts | November 24, 2014

Multitasker, social media genius, collector, diplomat.

Steve Saldivar | November 4, 2014

New online: searchable records from the 19th-century stock books of famed art dealers Knoedler Gallery.

Christian Huemer | September 22, 2014

Two paintings of lovers, decades and centuries apart.

Ed Schad | September 8, 2014

What is worse than a shark? Oh, that’s right. A lot.

Sarah Waldorf | August 10, 2014

This woman is still beautiful and self-assured, 2,000 years after her portrait was painted.

Steve Saldivar | July 7, 2014

Paintings and tapestries by the great baroque artist come to the Getty in October.

Melissa Abraham | June 27, 2014

Belgium’s most eccentric, scandalous, and shocking painter is the focus of an exhibition at the Getty Center this summer.

Lyra Kilston | June 10, 2014

Abstraction was no modern innovation—it’s been an integral part of art across the centuries.

Bryan C. Keene | May 30, 2014