France has added to its national collections two paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard that were thought to be missing until 2017. Both will now be displayed at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier. Titled Le ...

Christie’s closed Classics Week with $110,004,491, while Sotheby’s wrapped its Old Masters sales at the Breuer with $94.8 million—numbers that underscore the market’s continued appetite for ...

“It was a thunderbolt,” says curator Yuriko Jackall, a specialist in 18th-century French art, describing the 2012 discovery at a Paris auction house of a previously unknown drawing by Jean Honoré ...

Every art lover has experienced this disappointment: You travel somewhere, set on seeing a specific object, and find that it has been lent out, is under restoration, or inexplicably unavailable. If ...

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 ...

A “forgotten” painting kept in the same family for generations has sold for 7.68 million euros ($9.1 million) at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French painter Jean-Honoré ...

In 2016, two paintings by Jean-Honoré Fragonard were unearthed in a Normandy chateau after languishing in obscurity for over 200 years. Following a blocked export license, a declaration of national ...

John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage are darlings in the contemporary art market. Their work is well “liked,” well purchased and well collected. Both artists are represented by branded galleries and have ...

Charges have been brought against an unnamed vandal after the repeated defacing of paintings at the Villa-Musée Jean-Honoré Fragonard in Grasse, south of France. Le Figaro reports that a painting by ...

I'm not sure a picture is worth a thousand words. But why do some pictures sell for millions and others that seem identical go for just a few dollars? Since February, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in ...

A “forgotten” painting kept in the same family for generations has sold for 7.68 million euros ($9.1 million) at auction after experts discovered it was the work of French painter Jean-Honoré ...