The story of one of the 20th century’s most widely recognised and loved works, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), which realised $90.3 million in November 2018 to become one of the most expensive works of art by a living artist ever sold at auction. David Hockney (English, B 1937) Portrait of an ...

Willem de Kooning (Netherlands/America, 1904-1997) Interchange oil on canvas 200.7 x 175.3 cm. (79 x 69 in.) Painted in 1955 A founding father of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Willem de Kooning, along with painters like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Franz Klein, permanently changed the history of modern art, relocating its centre from Paris to ...

An iconic Andy Warhol silkscreen of the movie star Marilyn Monroe sold for USD 195,000,000 at Christie’s New York, 9 May 2022, a record price for a work by a US artist and the highest price ever paid for a piece of 20th-century art. Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) is being sold by the Thomas ...

Portrait of Japanese Painter Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan-France, 1886-1968) photographed by Pierre Vauthey. Portrait de Jeune Fille à Hanoi (Portrait of a Young Girl in Hanoi) is one of Foujita's masterpieces illustrating the beauty of a Vietnamese lady. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern ...

Mai Trung Thu at his atelier in Vanves, France

Portrait of Mai Trung Thu

Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan-France, 1886-1968) Portrait de Jeune Fille à Hanoi (Portrait of a Young Girl in Hanoi) signed in Japanese; signed, inscribed and dated 'Foujita Hanoi 1941' (lower left) ink, watercolour and charcoal on paper 27 x 24 cm. (10 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.) Painted in 1941 Price Realised HKD 350,000 at Christie's ...

Claude Monet (France, 1840-1926) Soleil Levant (Sunrise) oil on canvas 48 x 63 cm. (18.9 x 24.8 in.) painted in 1872 Collection of Marmottan Museum of Monet, Paris, France

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919) Bal du moulin de la Galette (Dance at Le moulin de la Galette) oil on canvas 131 × 175 cm. (52 × 69 in.) painted in 1876 Collection of Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890) Terrasse du café le soir (Café Terrace at Night) oil on canvas 80.7 x 65.3 cm. (31.8 x 25.7 in.) painted in 1888 Collection of Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands