Kids often discover art by coloring with crayons, but there is something else about art that they discover along the way, ...

A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals, possibly depicting his own children, are returning to the ...

A recent Sotheby's sale of 55 Old Masters works, collected over decades by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, yielded just $64.7 million, far below the initial estimate of $80 million to $120 million.

George Wachter, Sotheby’s chairman and co-worldwide head of old master paintings, notes that seeing ... “You do not see a Lawrence of a young, beautiful girl in pink like this,” says Wachter.

The Mauritshuis, which shows masterworks by Johannes Vermeer (including Girl ... an old master paintingOpens in new window ] And sometimes – as in the most enduring mysteries – the art ...

It gave him that feeling of recognizing an old friend ... the 16th century, the painting depicts an austere man and his young daughter in matching ruffs. The girl passes flowers to her father ...

Expected to achieve between $6 million and $8 million, the portraits depict a boy and a girl ... contemporary art sales, which benefit from a steady influx of new supply, Old Masters auctions ...

The presence of the hidden portrait, who peers imperceptibly through the craquelure – those alluring cracks in old master paintings ... Modigliani's famous Portrait of a Girl, 1917, is ...

Flower Girl and Watercress Girl, sold for £991,000 ($1.3 million) at Bonhams Old Master paintings sale on December 4, far exceeding its £300,000–£500,000 estimate. The portraits accounted for ...

The Watercress Girl and The Flower Girl had remained ... London’s main biannual auctions of Old Master paintings, particularly in December (which has a shorter gathering period than July ...