Portraits of the 20th Century,” explores the pioneering work and achievement of avant-garde artists through portraiture. Including a range of movements and styles, from Fauvism and Dadaism to ...

Dubbed ‘the Polish painter of the 20th century’, one émigré artist went through hard times only to be ... and started a friendship that lasted nearly half a century. Portrait of Mrs C Epril, Standing ...

This article explores the vibrant world of African contemporary photography, highlighting artists who capture the essence of ...

Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, has died at age 93 ...

There’s a teensy issue with this exhibition of Francis Bacon’s portraits. The 20th-century British artist didn’t really paint ...

Francis Bacon is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. "Francis Bacon: Human Presence" at London's ...

Signed and numbered in pencil as follows: Gertrude Stein, Martin Buber, George Gershwin, Golda Meir, Sarah Bernhardt, Sigmund Freud - lower right Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, Louis Brandeis, The Marx ...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is generally remembered as "an artist who captured the darkness ... global angst" – about the "toxic" mid-20th century, Hitler, the Holocaust, and the nuclear arms ...

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...

Assouline latest, Fifth Avenue, makes for the perfect holiday present this year. The luxurious book follows the history of ...

August Sander's 'People of the 20th Century' assembled over 600 portraits of his fellow German citizens taken between 1892 ...

Painter Frank Auerbach, who fled Nazi Germany for Britain as a child and became one of the major artists of the 20th century, ...