Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

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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Drawing by John Constable sold for £71,740 after 200 years in private collection

The chalk and watercolor drawing A House and Haystack at Flatford (A House and Haystack at Flatford) by John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 -London, 1837), which belonged to the artist's family and close friends for nearly two centuries, sold today f...
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England, a rare and unpublished drawing by John Constable pops up: it will go to auction

A drawing of extraordinary historical and artistic interest by John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776-London, 1837), among the greatest masters of English landscape painting, is re-emerging on the market after nearly two centuries of absence. The work, ...
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New York, two Caillebotte masterpieces on display at Louis Vuitton flagship store

Until Nov. 16, 2025, two masterpieces by Gustave Caillebotte are on display in Louis Vuitton 's new flagship store in New York on 57th Avenue. On the fifth floor of the store, in a space redefined as Espace Louis Vuitton, is the exhibition that bring...
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