The cast arrived February 1915 at the Boulder Creek train station in a pouring rain, and local officials apologized that the ...

Colour can shock. When Elizabeth Barrett Browning saw the life-sized Tinted Venus in John Gibson’s studio in 1854 she said she had ‘seldom, if ever, seen so indecent a statue’.

On Thursday, December 3, Swann Galleries will offer an inaugural sale of Modern & Post-War Art, headed by specialist Harold Porcher.