Paul Fisher, professor of American studies at Wellesley College, begins his full-scale biography, "The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World," with a confession that Sargent, a great American ...
In the early 1990s, the art historian Barbara Bloemink was rummaging through a Yale library in search of a dissertation topic when she came across “a funny letter about how impossible men are” from ...
The Surrealists talked a good picture, and René Magritte was more a visual punster than a virtuoso painter. His art, Alex Danchev writes in this thoroughly and gruesomely entertaining biography, is “a ...
A new biography of one of the quintessential artists of the 20th century. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. MONDRIAN: ...
The 2025 record price for Habsburg Court Painter was for Portrait of Archduke Albrecht VII, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands The 2024 record price for Habsburg Court Painter was for Portrait of ...
Florine Stettheimer’s Asbury Park South, 1920. (Courtesy of the University of Chicago Press / Collection of Halley K. Harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York, New York) Some biographies not only ...
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