From Edna Manley to Philip Thomas, Jamaican art flowers with unparalleled authenticity and a highly special approach to depicting life. The images you can meet in the paintings and sculptures by the Jamaican artists almost always stem from the folklore ...
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Surreal Art Exhibition at Booth Gallery in New York
Back to 1917, when such movement as Surrealism appeared, no one could think it would shape the world of art so much. Today, we have quite credible facts and figures to assume that surreal art has become one of the ...
Read More »Artworks by Roberto Matta at the Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, received 94 artworks by Roberto Matta (1911-2002) from 24 private art collections and two foundations. Art collectors from the USA, the UK, Israel, Italy, Mexico, France, and Switzerland offered the masterpieces from ...
Read More »“Dali Lives” Virtual Art Project
The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, launches an extraordinary virtual art project. Starting from April, visitors of the institution will have the opportunity to learn more about the life and work of the great surrealist artist from the ...
Read More »World Records of Christie’s Evening Sale
At the first Christie’s evening sale in 2019, two world records were set at once – for the vibrant paintings by impressionist Gustave Caillebotte and pointillist Paul Signac. As for the leader of the evening, it was a colorful still ...
Read More »Sotheby’s Auction in London: Triumph of Monet and Schiele
Sotheby’s evening sale of vivid artworks by impressionists, modernists, and surrealists took place in the UK capital on February 26 and brought a total of 87.7 million pounds (115.3 million dollars). The most expensive paintings of the Sotheby’s auction in ...
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