Second only in importance to London’s British Museum is London’s Tate Gallery, an institution which, since its founding 40 years ago and particularly since it has been taken under the munificent wing ...

Christie’s announced the auction of an exceptional group of works from the former Collection Henri Canonne – the legendary Impressionist collector taking place in Paris on April 9 at 4 PM.

France is renowned as a birth place for some of the world's finest and most celebrated artists, but it's not just the well known painters who can pull in the crowds. Maurice Utrillo may not be a ...

54 x 72.5 cm. (21.3 x 28.5 in.) - Collection of Marcus Diener, Basel. - With Galerie Dr Raeber, Basel. - Private collection, Switzerland, acquired on 14 March 1964 at the above gallery and by descent ...

An auction of paintings by French artist Maurice Utrillo raised more than $7m in Paris. Self-taught, cursed by alcohol addiction, and detained in a mental institution, Utrillo was saved by his art and ...

Marie-Clementine Valadon assured herself of some notoriety when she casually conceived an illegitimate son in the alleys of Montmartre early in 1883. But Suzanne Valadon—as she was renamed by Toulouse ...

The painting shows a rural scene thought to be a street in a French village A cobweb-covered painting found behind an old bureau in a Northamptonshire farmhouse could sell for a six-figure sum, an ...

Maurice Utrillo, born Maurice Valadon, (26 December 1883 – 5 November 1955) was a French painter who specialized in cityscapes. Born in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, France, Utrillo is one of the ...

Paris is a city of the mind. In addition to its reputation for intellectualism, it is one of the few cities of which almost everyone has some mental picture. And even though these images sometimes ...