A fluorescent lamp clips to the top of an easel marked by colorful streaks of paint. The artist, petroleum engineering senior ...

Artist Gustav Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer’ hung in the home of a billionaire for decades; now it’s expected to smash auction records.

Until now, the record was held by the American Georgia O’Keeffe, who died in 1986. Her 1932 painting, Jimson Weed/White ...

Gilbert Stuart tartly maintained that “no one would paint history who could do a portrait,” but as the chief depicter of George Washington, he showed that to paint portraits is often to paint great ...

The Cincinnati Art Museum made an interesting discovery when examining one of the pieces created by Paul Cézanne.The Cézanne painting, "Still Life with Bread and Eggs," was being examined for possible ...

L uckily, a few well-known figures lived long enough to have both painted portraits and photographs taken of them, which is ...

His blonde hair already parted far to the side, a 20-year-old Andy Warhol thrusts a finger up his protuberant nostril, revealing the wrangling of defiance and precarity that imbued his tangled ...

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one ...

"When I’m gone she’ll always know the way I saw her" Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years. Greg Newington In the spring, ...

Gustav Klimt's 'Porträt der Elisabeth Lederer,' part of Leonard A. Lauder's personal collection, could fetch $150 million at ...