The title of Édouard Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass in English) sounds innocent enough, but the 1863 painting generated quite the scandal in 19th-century Paris. In the ...

Last week, surrounded by Shobha Broota's 'Origin' series of abstract works (mostly oils and pastels), a long-dormant memory of visiting Kolkata's Birla Planetarium resurfaced in my mind without ...

British artist Banksy's "remix" of a masterpiece by Impressionist painter Claude Monet is going up for auction on Oct. 21 and is expected to fetch between 3-5 million pounds ($3.8-6.4 million), ...

Painted by Pablo Picasso in Germany-occupied Paris during World War II, the oil features French artist Dora Maar, his partner ...

A woman looks at the artwork "I and my model" by artist Lotte Laserstein at the new exhibition "Queer Modernism. 1900 to 1950 ...

Painted in 1970, when artist VS Gaitonde had already gained repute as an abstractionist, an untitled canvas in yellow with ...