A GOOD model, badly posed, lends itself to very awkward studies, and does not instruct the eye as it should. French art is a subject that for a long time has been badly posed before Americans. Those ...

Pyotr Konchalovsky’s "Self-Portrait" will not return to Russia. The 1912 painting is owned by Petr Aven, a Russian oligarch on the European Union sanctions list. French authorities will not let it ...

“La Réception au Château,” a meticulous framed oil on canvas depicting lavishly attired guests reveling by the water outside a grand country home, painted by nineteenth-century French artist Adrien ...

Lyrical Abstraction, a term coined by art critic Jean José Marchand in 1947, emerged in postwar Paris as a strain of total abstraction. The self-proclaimed inventor of this painting style was French ...

Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer.

The paintings speak for themselves in the companion shows opening Sunday at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. No fancy graphics, interactive playrooms or explanatory videos plump out the space, aside ...

The first time the French filmmaker and scholar Mame-Fatou Niang encountered “L’histoire en Peinture de l’Assemblée Nationale,” a large painting hanging in the National Assembly in Paris, she was ...

France’s Banksy’ has created a monumental art installation over Paris’ oldest bridge. And visitors to La Caverne du Pont Neuf are in for an uncomfortable and unforgettable crossing ...

The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression of art in France during the period of the French Revolution, around the 18th and 19th centuries. It begins with lesser-known ...

For centuries, a painting from the Florentine artist Cimabue was believed to be missing. But this year it turned up in the home of a 90-year-old woman living in the French countryside. The painting, ...

A small museum in southwestern France has just gained a Goya thanks to a new authentication that's left a different French museum with a mere copy. The Castres painting: Francisco Goya, “Self-Portrait ...