Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

The rediscovery of Paul Troubetzkoy starts in Paris. What the Musée d'Orsay exhibition looks like.

Enzo Azzoni, a ninety-five-year-old Verbano photographer and runner who at his young age still continues to win Italian masters championships in track and field, is right. He is right when he says that we must not forget that today we can know and ap...
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Rome exhibition "Lights and Colors" explores European painting between the 19th and 20th centuries

Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art Gallery in Rome presents Lights and Colors in Art. European Painting between the 19th and 20th Centuries, an exhibition opening Thursday, Dec. 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. and open to the public until Jan. 30, 2026. The exhibi...
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Auctions, record at Il Ponte: Modigliani leads auction of more than 8.6 million

Important results for the Modern and Contemporary Art session of November 25 and 26 at the Il Ponte auction house in Milan, which ended as one of the most relevant in recent times for the Italian market, not only for the magnitude of the results, but...
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France, Renoir painting believed lost resurfaces. Sold for nearly 2 million euros

A painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Limoges, 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919) thought to be lost was sold at auction yesterday in Paris for nearly two million euros (1,832,800 to be precise). The sale took place at the Hôtel Drouot where an auctio...
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Paul Troubetzkoy on display in Milan, the sculpture of the Belle Époque

From February 27 to June 28, 2026, GAM | Gallery of Modern Art in Milan is hosting the exhibition Paul Troubetzkoy. The Sculptor of the Belle Époque, a retrospective devoted to one of the most important sculptors between the 19th and 20th cent...
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Boldini's Haystack joins the collections of the Museum of the Ancient Palace of the Bishops of Pistoia

The Museum of the Ancient Palace of Bishops in Pistoia, managed by the Pistoia Musei Foundation, expands its collections with the acquisition of The Haystack by Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, 1842 - Paris, 1931), a small oil on panel painting depicting a...
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Andrea Appiani beyond Napoleon: Milan rediscovers the painter of beauty. What the exhibition looks like

Almost half of what is preserved at the Brera Art Gallery is due to the ideas and taste of a man, Andrea Appiani, who was well regimented within the Napoleonic bureaucratic apparatus. Right from the start: as early as 1796, the year of Napoleon's arr...
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World record for Frida Kahlo: her Sueño sold for 54.7 million

The sale of El sueño (La cama), a self-portrait made by Frida Kahlo in 1940, set a record for the artist but not only. The work was sold Nov. 20 during the Surrealist art auction organized by Sotheby 's in New York for a total of $54.7 million...
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