painting

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It’s a surrealist painting in motion, the equivalent of staring at Salvador Dali’s wasteland of melting clocks until it makes gut-sense.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Recent auctions at Sotheby’s and Phillips generated $419 million, including a record $48.4 million sale of a Matisse painting.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

If Hofmann can’t draw you into the beauties of abstract painting, no one can.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

The artist regarded a signature as part of the painting and would scrape it off and re-do it if it didn’t meet that test.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Funny how even in the dead of winter the West Virginia sun rises like a watercolor painting over the hills.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson