Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Why, having included two versions of Christ and His Disciples Crossing the Sea of Galilee, omit the other two in ...

From the bold colours and abstract shapes of Matisse and Kandinsky, to the expressiveness of Van Gogh and Gauguin, to the vibrant complementary colours of the Impressionists. All can be traced back to ...

A whopping gift of artworks and some $80 million from late trustee Jayne Wrightsman announced today will benefit numerous departments at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Selections from the ...

A masterpiece by 19th-century French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), thought to be lost for close to 170 years, has joined the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Titled Women of ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

THE death of Eugene Delacroix cuts the last bond between the great artistic epoch which commenced with the Bellini and that which had its beginning with the nineteenth century, epochs as diverse in ...

Paris – It’s been hanging on people’s walls for almost 170 years without drawing much attention, but a painting showing a group of women has turned out to be more than meets the eye. The most recent ...

French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the greatest creative figures of the nineteenth century. Coming of age after the fall of Napoleon, he reconnected the present to the past on his ...