Van Gogh painting among ‘legendary’ collection set to fetch £338m at auction Sotheby’s is presenting the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection at an auction in New York on November 18 The Independent UK · Sep 30
Collection of ‘legendary’ artworks led by van Gogh set to fetch £338m at auction Sotheby’s will offer the Blaquier-Arrieta Collection, a group of impressionist and modern paintings, in New York on November 18. Evening Standard · Sep 30
Printmaking skills of Manet, Van Gogh and more celebrated in Bath show Exhibition explores how artists mainly known for their paintings helped revive a skill that had fallen out of fashion The Guardian - UK · May 17
Van Gogh and the Roulins: a family reunion of the artist’s greatest portraits The Van Gogh Museum’s new exhibition, Van Gogh and the Roulins – Together Again at Last, celebrates an important family reunion. It brings together 14 portraits of the wife and three children of the postman Joseph Roulin – Vincent van Gogh’s closest friend and supporter while he was based in… The Conversation · Oct 16, 2025
‘The Polynesians loved him’: the astonishing revelations that cast Paul Gauguin in a new light He has been tarred as a French colonialist who spread syphilis to underage girls in the South Seas. But, writes the author of an acclaimed new book, fresh discoveries challenge this view of the artist – and even show him as a hero The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2025
Keep your head above water: art show looks at the rising seas From a high chair to the ocean floor, Can the Seas Survive Us? in Norfolk’s Sainsbury Centre explores our watery world and the climate crisis The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2025
The best biographies and memoirs of 2024 Salman Rushdie’s account of his near-fatal stabbing, a 360-degree view of Queen Elizabeth II and Al Pacino’s rags to riches career are among this year’s most compelling personal histories The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2024
On the Van Gogh trail in Arles where the secrets (and lies) of the artist’s world are revealed As a major new Van Gogh exhibition opens at London’s National Gallery, Michael Hodges takes a train to Arles to retrace the famous painter’s steps and discovers a twisty tale where fact merges into fiction and brings a surprising portrait of the artist to life The Independent UK · Sep 11, 2024
NGA acquires painting by 'nasty piece of work' Gauguin The National Gallery of Australia has bought a significant artwork by Paul Gauguin, during its exhibition of works by the controversial painter. AAP · Aug 1, 2024
Artist or monster? Mammoth new Gauguin show reckons with colonial legacy – to limited success The National Gallery of Australia’s exhibition Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao acknowledges the French master’s misdeeds in the Pacific – but just as easily omits or distracts from them The Guardian - AU · Jul 1, 2024
Paul Gauguin was a violent paedophile. Should the National Gallery of Australia be staging a major exhibition of his work? Should the National Gallery of Australia be staging a major Paul Gauguin exhibition? The Conversation · Jun 28, 2024
Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night Over the Rhône returns to Arles for the first time in 136 years The painting is on loan for an exhibition that opens this weekend in the Provençal city where the painter became obsessed with the night sky and eventually descended into madness The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2024
17 Unique Facts About Van Gogh’s Yellow-Hued Series Of Sunflowers Here are some rare and sunny facts about Vincent van Gogh’s acclaimed paintings of sunflowers. The post 17 Unique Facts About Van Gogh’s Yellow-Hued Series Of Sunflowers first appeared on Bored Panda. Bored Panda · Apr 4, 2024
10 Most Expensive Paintings: Brushstrokes Of Value In the world of contemporary art, a handful of paintings have attained legendary status through their staggering prices at auction. These masterpieces, spanning various eras and styles, epitomize artistic excellence and the vision of renowned creators. International Business Times · Feb 12, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2023 Funding plea for Parisian atelier where Modigliani and Gauguin worked Atelier 11 in the Cité Falguière, a home and workplace of famous painters and sculptors since the 1870s, needs urgent renovation
The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023 Claudette Johnson: Presence review – subtle swipes at the exploitative modern masters The artist brilliantly questions depictions of non-white figures by such revered painters as Gauguin and Picasso – but there’s a quiet power to her new work that leaves theory behind
The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2023 After the British Museum thefts, what other major art heists have there been? One Rembrandt has been stolen four times, and works by Van Gogh, Munch and Picasso have also been targeted by criminals
The Conversation · Jun 8, 2023 Pierre Bonnard: the master of shimmering luminosity, who painted difficult paintings and yet made them lucid and accessible Pierre Bonnard, unlike his older contemporary, Paul Gauguin, never visited Australia, yet Bonnard’s influence on Australian art is pervasive and profound.
France 24 · Apr 20, 2023 Discovering France's most beautiful hiking paths Of the 370 long-distance hiking paths that criss-cross the French countryside, some in particular stand out. In Finistère, on the Atlantic, the Chemin du Pouldu merges with the Brittany coast. Its contrasts of green and blue have inspired many artists, such as French painter Paul Gauguin. Down in the Cévennes,…
The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2023 From Infinity Pool to Succession: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment Whether it’s an icky shocker from a body-horror scion or a warring dynasty of uber-rich media scumbags, our critics have you covered for the next seven days
Evening Standard · Mar 22, 2023 After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art at the National Gallery review: an artistic explosion This was a time when art really was everything everywhere all at once
The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2023 After Impressionism review – radical ideas and ecstatic sex from the edge of a new universe Cézanne outshines Van Gogh, with Picasso his revolutionary pupil, in this absorbing hurtle toward modern art – smashing 500 years of tradition into cubist shards
The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2023 Gauguin’s ‘child-wife’: in search of the muse that inspired a masterpiece Who is the young girl in Paul Gauguin’s painting Spirit of the Dead Watching? On a trip to Tahiti, the film-maker and novelist Devika Ponnambalam finds out the troubling truth
France 24 · Feb 20, 2023 Discovering some of France's most beautiful villages Thanks to their architecture, history and exceptional heritage, some French villages are the pride of their inhabitants and a joy for tourists. Perched on its Corsican hilltop, the village of Sant'Antonino is not easily accessible. Here, people still ride donkeys and cultivate olives the old-fashioned way. In Brittany, the charming…
Asharq Al-Awsat · Nov 10, 2022 Paul Allen's Art Collection Tops $1 bn at Christie's Paintings and sculptures from the collection of late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen were auctioned off for a historic $1 billion Wednesday, Christie's auction house said, with records set for works by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Seurat and Klimt. At the end of the night Wednesday, five paintings entered the exclusive…