Hals makes for joy. His work is a metaphor for life and promise. Left: Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, c. 1622, by Frans Hals. Oil on canvas. (©Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ...

The auction of fifty-six works once owned by Thomas A. Saunders III and his wife Jordan is expected to break the record set by the $76 million Fisch Davidson collection sale in 2023. Stedelijk Museum ...

They are captured singing and playing, in a fleeting moment of tenderness. Now a pair of unusually intimate portraits by 17th century Dutch master Frans Hals are on public sale – if you have at least ...

and Claude Monet—rediscovered Frans Hals in the mid-1800s. These artists were particularly struck by the free-flowing, audaciously visible brushstrokes of Hals’ work. Compared to the idealized ...