The central question of portraiture is how to best turn its subjects inside out — how to best manipulate an inanimate medium so as to capture an animate sitter with a hidden history of invisible ...

"It feels like a crisis every time I pick up a brush and paint, it's life or death." There's no sense of exaggeration or ...

Despite the prevalence of self-referential and autobiographical elements in his art, Jean-Michel Basquiat rarely identified his paintings as explicit representations of himself. Now, one of the artist ...

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT SELF-PORTRAIT acrylic, oil, oilstick and paper collage on wood, triptych 36 3/8 x 71 7/8 in. (92.4 x 182.6 cm) Executed in 1983. In art world serendipity, rare double self ...

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.

(Bloomberg) -- A Gustav Klimt portrait of a young Viennese woman set a record auction price for the artist Tuesday when it fetched $236.4 million at Sotheby’s in New York. The portrait also became the ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth ...