Christie’s Hong Kong will auction Xu Beihong’s masterpiece Slave and Lion in a standalone auction on May 24, 2021 It is likely to become the most expensive Chinese figurative painting — again. Xu ...

French auctioneer Malo de Lusac was conducting a routine inventory check in France’s Touraine region—until he unearth a rare artistic gem. One family in the region had an original Eugéne Delacroix ...

Oil paintings have been found in caves behind the two ancient colossal Buddha statues destroyed in 2001 by the Taliban, suggesting that Asians — not Europeans — were the first to invent oil painting.

A plea has been made for the safe return of a stolen painting of the late Roaring Lion. Artist Tania Still spent eight months on the oil painting, studying videos of the four-time Group One winner and ...