Category: Documentaries

A street in Bac Ninh, Vietnam named after artist Hoang Tich Chu. Hoàng Tích Chù (1912-2003), born in Phù Lưu village, Từ Sơn town, Bắc Ninh Province, known for Vietnamese lacquer; a former director of Vietnamese Fine Arts Institute. In 2000, he was awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for his art and literature achievements.

Pierre Bonnard's Verve Magazine Cover No. 3 illustrated in Le Pho's Les chrysanthèmes blancs et jaunes (White and Yellow Chrysanthemums) The first four issues of 'Verve' - a journal defining Modernism published in 1937

More than five centuries ago, on October 31, 1512, the frescoes on the vault of the Sistine Chapel were inaugurated. Michelangelo's masterwork, these frescoes are set in the chapel erected at the request of Pope Sixtus IV in place of the medieval Capella Magna. Since the 15th century, this chapel has housed the Conclave, the ...

Rue Delambre and the plaques of Gauguin, Breton, and Hemingway. Hotel Delambre - where Paul Gauguin, André Breton, and Maurice Le Scouezec stayed in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, noted mostly for his colourful paintings that he created during the ten years he lived in Tahiti in French ...

Saint-François-Xavier, Paris, France - The church where Le Pho had his death ceremony in 2021. Le Pho had converted to Catholicism and taken as his baptismal name "Victor", the first name of his beloved master, Victor Tardieu.

Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, Vallauris, France, 1955. Photographed by Philippe Halsman (America, 1906-1979).

Erwin Olaf (Netherlands, 1959–2023) has died at the age of 64 after a long battle with lung disease, according to information published on Wednesday, September 20 by several media outlets in the Netherlands, citing the artist's family. "World-famous photographer Erwin Olaf has died. His family has announced the news," reported NOS, the Dutch public broadcasting ...

Christie's Invitation to a conference on the special occasion of the release of Gustave Caillebotte, L'impressioniste inconnu by Stéphanie Chardeau-Botteri at Christie's Paris, 9 Avenue Matignon, Paris, 19 September 2023. Gustave Caillebotte by Stephanie Chardeau-Botteri For a long time, our families have known each other. For a long time, I had heard talk of the ...

Christie's Invitation to a roundtable discussion on 25 Years of the Washington Principles on Nazi Confiscated Art. Keynote speaker Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat, drafter of the Washington Principles and Christie’s Advisory Board Member will be joined by Simon Goodman, author of 'The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family’s Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis'; MacKenzie ...

Bronze statue "Standing Woman" by Gaston Lachaise (France, 1882–1935) in Jardin des Tuileries (Tuileries Garden), which was one of the direct witnesses of the history of France: during the uprising of 1789, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette took refuge in the palace after the revolutionaries had taken them back to the Palace of Versailles. Gaston Lachaise ...