The police detained a suspect in the theft of a painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi from the Tretyakov Gallery; the painting itself was found in the Moscow region. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, the suspect, a 31-year-old man whose name has not been released, was detained in the village of Zarechye, Moscow Region. He…
The US authorities are planning to return a painting depicting Ivan the Terrible to Ukraine. The work, painted 107 years ago by the artist Mikhail Panin, disappeared from the Dnepropetrovsk Art Museum during the occupation of the city in 1941, and was recently discovered in a private house in Connecticut ...
“Completely unrealistic” and “ridiculous” are the words to describe the strange painting of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, which hangs on the wall in the White House. Trump personally chose Andy Thomas’s work and even called the artist to express gratitude for his creation.…
The buyer of the painting by artist Banksy "Girl with a Ball", which self-destructed after the auction, upheld the deal. “At first I was shocked, but gradually I began to realize that I would have my own piece of art history,” the auction house Sotheby's quotes her as saying. According to the auction house, after the destruction, the painting received a new name - ...
On October 5 at Sotheby's auction for about a million pounds sold Banksy's work "Girl with a Balloon". Immediately after the hammer hit, the painting self-destructed with the help of a shredder built into the frame, which was installed by the artist himself. According to experts, the value of the spoiled "Girl ..."
Moscow police detained a man who on Friday evening damaged the painting by Ilya Repin “Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on November 16, 1581” (also known as “Ivan the Terrible kills his son”) in the Tretyakov Gallery, writes BBC. According to the press service...
Robert Warren stumbled upon a long-forgotten painting in the closet of his art gallery. The canvas was damaged by water and cracked in several places, writes CNN. “I didn’t think it was of any value, and I didn’t know why the painting was ...
Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev's painting "Savior of the World" by Leonardo da Vinci, exhibited at Christie's in New York, went under the hammer for $ 450,3 million. This amount was a record for any artwork ever put up for auction. Buyer's name is unknown. Painting "Savior of the World" ...
The $160 million painting “Ocher Woman” by Willem de Kooning, stolen more than 30 years ago, was returned to the University of Arizona Museum of Art, ABC News writes. “If this painting could talk, it would tell a great story,” said the police chief...
Unidentified people stole seven paintings by American artist Andy Warhol depicting cans of Campbell's soup from a museum in the American city of Springfield, Mississippi. According to the FBI, the theft took place on April 7. The department does not specify her circumstances. We only know that...