Bel Mooney reviews the three best artist biographies of 2024. Were these men creative geniuses or were they quite simply mad, ...

Caroline Blackwood’s tumultuous personal life has long overshadowed her artistic talents. Now, her bleak and witty novels are ...

When Vincent van Gogh painted his glorious sunflowers in Arles, every single one of them was for Paul Gauguin, whom he’d ...

Some of Sigmund Freud’s ideas are now ridiculed. Others are on shaky scientific ground. But psychoanalytic theory can help us ...

18.8 x 14.3 cm. (7.4 x 5.6 in.) ...

Jean Strouse’s “Family Romance” recounts Sargent’s relationship with the Wertheimers, a family that played a major role in ...

Increasingly given as presents, these commissions tell stories by building a family’s memories, secrets and in-jokes into ...

Frank Auerbach, one of the world’s leading modern painters and last survivor of the post-World War II London School of figurative art that also included Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon ...

Asher Wertheimer, an art dealer, first commissioned Sargent to make portraits of himself and his ... scrupulous” and “less aggressive and self-promoting” than his competition, Strouse ...

You have to be ready to receive a painting by Frank Auerbach. The process of receiving takes time and unfolds gradually. When ...