Szyk (1894-1951) was born in Łódź and trained as an artist in Kraków and Paris, absorbing medieval illumination, caricature ...

Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war, sells at Sotheby’s auction A painting by Gustav Klimt has sold for a ...

Gustav Klimt’s "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" was seized by the Nazis and was almost ruined in a fire during World War II Cover Images via AP Images A painting by a famed Austrian artist became the ...

Klimt's “Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer” helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust. It broke a record at auction previously set by an Andy Warhol potrait of Marilyn Monroe. A ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting sold Tuesday for $236 million, a record for a modern art piece, at an auction where a solid gold, fully functional toilet satirizing the ultrarich also fetched $12.1 ...

A Gustav Klimt portrait painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million, a record for a modern art piece. Klimt’s “Portrait of Elisabeth ...

Hidden for decades from public view, the artist's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer has now sold at auction for a record sum. Why is it so valuable? A mysterious and relatively little-known painting by ...

Patrick Mahomes is talented on the football field, but can he say the same about the field of art? The Kansas City Chiefs quarterback tried his hand at painting his wife Brittany Mahomes during an ...

In the middle of a huge bed floating in a cloudy sky, the silhouette of Frida Kahlo, her jet hair sweeping across the pillow, disappears beneath the embrace of a yellow blanket and a leafy branch. The ...

Malaga, Spain-born artist Raúl Berzosa has painted portraits of popes for the Vatican, and his works have graced the covers of booklets at Vatican ceremonies and even the Stations of the Cross at the ...

James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in 'Art' on Broadway Matthew Murphy I don’t think I’d consider Yasmina Reza’s Art a masterpiece, though after seeing the sharp new Broadway ...

A $50,000 painting stolen 80 years ago by the Nazis was recovered Wednesday in Argentina, about a week after it appeared in a real estate listing from the daughter of a Nazi fugitive. “Portrait of a ...