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The top two slots are occupied by portraits of women; Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes de Alger (Version O) (1955), which sold for $179.4 million at Christie’s New York in May 2015, and Amadeo ...
For artist Kim Schoenstadt, it began as a simple idea: Bring together a group of female artists from around Los Angeles for a group portrait — a way of recognizing the presence of women in a ...
A portrait of the four female justices who have served on the United States Supreme Court was unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery on Monday. Justices Sandra Day O’Connor ...
Bus stops across Brooklyn will give space to art this month, displaying a series of portraits that champion local women. ‘Black women you are essential, we love you, we see you’ is artist Aya Brown’s ...
An amazing video shows 90 female portraits morphing into each other in chronological order, from a Russian icon to Picasso’s lover. BBC Culture takes a look.
In 2016, Tate Britain acquired Carlile’s Portrait of an Unknown Lady after British TV art historian Bendor Grosvenor identified it as the artist’s. He purchased it from Woolley and Wallis ...
The Portrait Gallery opened to the public in 1968 and—important for this conversation—it was not permitted to collect photographs until 1976, just 40 years ago.
Artist Danni Dawson’s portrait of “The Chew” co-host Carla Hall, above, is meant to mimic a paper doll. If you look at the subject’s shoulders and elbows, you can see the white tabs of her ...