Born Josef Braun (1918-2009) in Lodz Poland, he arrived in Australia with his father and siblings in 1933. At 15 he settled in Melbourne and attended Princes Hill Central School. Brown showed an early talent for drawing and was first exhibit...
Hilda Rix (1884-1961) was born in rural Victoria. Her mother was artistic so Hilda was allowed to study at the National Gallery School Melbourne from 1902-5 under Frederick McCubbin, Australia’s greatest artist then. In 1907 she left Australi...
Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, painted in 1917, went missing a few years later and was assumed lost then and probably destroyed during World War II. It has finally surfaced in Vienna after a century of speculation. The current owner's f...
Many years ago I examined the theft of the Mona Lisa in this blog. So now let us re-examine the most famous painting in the universe, by Leonardo da Vinci in 1503-16, to reveal a different motive from the one provided back in 2012.Vinc...
Madonna will showcase Lempicka’s art on her Celebration Concert Tour, Lempicka The Musical on Broadway in Mar 2024. An exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honour Museum will reevaluate her style in art history...
Asserting the importance of collaboration among European museums, Musée du Louvre has formed a fine partnership with Museo di Capodimonte for 2023-4. The royal palace, which once served as a hunting lodge for Naples’s Bourbon monarchs,...
Berthe Morisot,WikiBerthe Morisot (1841–95) was born into a very cultivated, bourgeois Bourges family, dad a government minister and mum the great-niece of the famous Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Berthe and her older sister, Ed...