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Pedestrians pass the display windows at Bonhams New York auction house. The Mexican government accuses Bonhams of auctioning off artifacts that were stolen from Mexico, and says others that were offered as ancient were modern fakes. Bonhams Auction House sold more than 100 pre-Hispanic artifacts Wednesday in New York City, including several Aztec ...
Andy Warhol's Triple Elvis [Ferus Type] is set to be auctioned at Christie's, and expectations are high — but Warhol's estate won't see any of the money. Christie's Images LTD. 2014 It's fall auction season in New York, and two Andy Warhol silkscreens are on the block at Christie's. One is of Elvis Presley — it's called Triple Elvis ...
Edgar Degas' 1875 painting Au Café Concert: La Chanson du Chien is part of billionaire Jerry Perenchio's collection being donated to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art In a gift the Los Angeles County Museum of Art says is the largest in its history, billionaire Jerry Perenchio is donating art worth an estimated ...
At a small exhibit at the Historical Museum of Crete, a visiting artist gazes at an early religious painting by El Greco. "The Baptism of Christ" is a vividly colored, two-dimensional, egg tempera-on-panel work from the second half of the 16th century. But it already showed hints of the style that would later make him one of the Western world's most famous ...
"My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me." — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Photo by Zoraya Tonel