Hailed as one of the giants of Modernism, the artist who fell in and out of love with painting and coined the term Art Brut
From quinces with a moral message to contemporary meditations on domesticity. Illustrated with works coming to Christie’s
The contemporary artist Alexis McGrigg uses installation, drawings and complex layered paintings to explore questions of Blackness
The Ivorian artist discusses his phantasmagorical canvases and their connection to the graffiti of African street children
Everything you need to know about the life and career of the great British sculptor — featuring upcoming lots at Christie’s
An in-depth look at Britain's most famous Modernist painter. Illustrated with works offered for sale in March
The two artists were fast friends for seven decades, and painted each other many times
To celebrate Valentine’s Day, here’s our affectionate tribute to 10 artistic couples from the 16th century to the present day
Jessica Lack selects 10 great works that chart artists’ shifting relationships with the sea, from the Middle Ages to today
Produced at the most intensely creative period of the artist’s career, this extraordinarily expressive drawing comes to auction in March
Musa Meyer on her father, one of just a handful of artists to make the journey from figuration to abstraction and back again
Andrew Graham-Dixon offers his shortlist for an imaginary exhibition of favourite paintings inspired by love and marriage
While darkness has traditionally been associated with evil in Western art, many artists have also found it a source of wonder
The legacy of the brilliant architect and designer Carlo Mollino includes a mysterious apartment in Turin
Author Jennifer Higgie on pioneering female artists whose depictions of themselves helped secure their place in history
As 14 works on paper by Fragonard come to Christie’s, specialist Stijn Alsteens details the quality and versatility of Fragonard’s draughtsmanship
Still owned by the descendants of the sitter, this depiction of Voltaire’s publisher is a sublime example of why Liotard was sought after by princes, popes and kings
The Louisiana artist and former cotton-picker’s ‘way of understanding her world’ won her admirers ranging from Oprah Winfrey to Joan Rivers
From Bruegel to Monet to Munch — ten wonderful winter landscapes chosen by our writers Harry Seymour, Alastair Smart and Jessica Lack
Specialist Donald Johnston admires the model for a magnificent statue still on display high above the altar of the church of Santi Michele e Gaetano
Specialist Noah Davis on why the artist’s poured paintings are as important as his ‘dot’ paintings of the 1960s
Rare 18th-century drawings by Lady Maria Compton highlight the role played by women in the early days of plant science
The senior curator of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum on Noguchi’s work in relation to light, physics and Futurism
He worked in fashion, theatre and film, but du Plantier is perhaps best known for his furniture — superb examples of which are now offered at Christie’s in Paris
The visually supercharged world of the Japanese artist loved by A-listers and inspired by everything from anime to Edo period woodcuts
As her triptych, Surprise Ending, is offered to benefit the charity Hopeland, the artist explains how her work engages with a digitally overloaded world
An introduction to the multidisciplinary Japanese-American sculptor-designer, illustrated with some of the 11 works coming to Christie’s in December
The furniture of the French painter combines ‘creativity with perfection of execution, rigour with imagination’
Specialist Clementine Sinclair on a banquet scene — closely related to one held by the Louvre — that has spent two centuries in a private collection
Specialist Asia Chiao on the Canadian artist who ‘condensed a lifetime’s career into just a few, short, blazing years’