Tag: Painting
Second time lucky for Blake prize winner
61-year-old painter Leonard Brown has won the prestigious Blake Prize for religious and spiritual art.[MORE]
The art of peacekeeping
Artists documents experience of Australian soldiers serving in peacekeeping missions.[MORE]
Collingwood painting sells for $900,000
An anonymous buyer has purchased a 1953 painting of three Collingwood footballers for $900,000.[MORE]
Titian painting damaged by water
Water sprayed by firefighters has damaged a painting by Renaissance master Titian at a Venice basilica.[MORE]
More security flaws unveiled in Van Gogh theft
A single security guard usually worked in the Cairo museum from which a Vincent Van Gogh painting was stolen, Egypt's state news agency MENA reports.[MORE]
Businessman offers reward for missing Van Gogh
Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris has offered a one million Egyptian pound ($198,000) reward for information leading to the recovery of a stolen Vincent Van Gogh painting.[MORE]
12 arrested in counterfeit art sting
Police in Italy have arrested 12 people after art collectors paid about $10 million for counterfeit paintings.[MORE]
Officials arrested over Van Gogh theft
Egypt's head of fine arts arrested pending an investigation into the theft of a Vincent Van Gogh painting.[MORE]
Hunt on for Van Gogh after Cairo heist
Egypt has stepped up the search for a Van Gogh painting stolen in broad daylight from a Cairo museum.[MORE]
Egypt backtracks on stolen Van Gogh recovery
Egypt's culture minister has backtracked on a claim that two Italians have been arrested with a stolen Van Gogh painting, blaming a subordinate for giving "inaccurate" information.[MORE]
Paintings snatched in million-dollar art heist
Thieves have escaped with up to $2m worth of artworks by Charles Blackman, Norman Lindsay and Pro Hart after a burglary at an eastern Sydney home.[MORE]
Portrait of death wins $150k prize
Fatherhood fears leads to $150,000 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for Brisbane-based artist Michael Zavros.[MORE]
Giant Picasso on display in London
Pablo Picasso's largest-ever painting has been unrolled at the Victoria and Albert Museum in central London.[MORE]
Shop assistant wins $40k art award
A 34-year-old shop assistant has won a $40,000 national prize for his artwork depicting piles of once-loved but now abandoned 1970s classic cars.[MORE]
Museum to pay $21m for stolen painting
The Leopold Museum in Austria has agreed to pay an Austrian Jewish woman's estate $US19 million ($21.5 million) for a painting a Nazi stole from her in World War II, US officials say.[MORE]
Mona Lisa x-ray reveals Da Vinci's light touch
French scientists have shone new light on the painting technique that allowed Renaissance master Leonardo Da Vinci to give the Mona Lisa such an extraordinary delicate charm.[MORE]
WWII-era art returned to Germany
Eleven oil paintings taken by a US soldier at the end of World War II are being sent back to a museum in the small German town of Pirmasens.[MORE]
Da Vinci's Virgin Of The Rocks decoded
Restoration reveals Virgin Of The Rocks was painted entirely by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci.[MORE]
Diana's brother sells Rubens for $16m
A painting by Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, put up for auction by the late Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer as part of a clear-out sale, has sold for 9 million pounds ($16 million).[MORE]
Yale finds Velazquez masterpiece in storage
A painting in Yale University's vast art collection that had been attributed to an unknown 17th century Spanish painter is in fact a work by Spanish master Diego Velazquez, the school said.[MORE]
Chinese painter Wu Guanzhong dies aged 90
Wu Guanzhong, who rose to international fame as one of the fathers of modern Chinese painting after years of persecution during the cultural revolution, has died aged 90.[MORE]
Artist to showcase north-west in exhibition
A Tom Price artist is to launch her first solo exhibition showcasing paintings of the north-west.[MORE]
Manet self-portrait fetches record $37.7 million
A self-portrait by French painter Edouard Manet sold for a record 22.4 million pounds ($37.7 million) at Sotheby's in London.[MORE]
Artist Charles McCubbin dies at 79
Victorian artist and naturalist Charles McCubbin has died aged 79. [MORE]
Art collectors to lose out under super changes
Artists say their industry could lose millions of dollars if people managing their own super funds are prohibited from investing in artworks.[MORE]
