The NZ$3.75m ($2.2m; $1.7m) sale also marks the highest price ever paid for a painting at auction in New Zealand, according to the auction house. It comes at a point of increased racial tensions in ...
Few artists in history can be conjured so vividly in the public imagination with just a handful of disjointed images as Vincent van Gogh (1853-90). The Dutch titan’s dramatic and tumultuous personal ...
I owned an old oil painting. This made it unique and therefore exclusive. But was it authentic? I took it to an auction house. “There are an awful lot of fakers imitating this artist,” the expert said ...