This provided women artists with vital instruction in life-drawing

Strongest sales to date for both houses

The drawings will be displayed as “attributed to F. Bacon”

Pietro Accorsi's long wait to showcase his collection is over

Raphael’s “Donna Velata” and Titian’s “Young Englishman” have become two of the most influential paintings by Renaissance masters

Artists (Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999)

As the supply of works by the big names dwindles demand is growing for pictures by lesser known artists

A new Orientalist star overturns Gérôme; Italo-Swiss Alpine artist fetches $9.5 million and “The big wave” sweeps photography to new heights

Nina Amaku's rendition of 'Il Cavalo' is relegated to the racetrack

The most comprehensive exhibition of Sargent ever mounted shows his bravura painting at its best, and is full of surprises

Leonardo flies again at the Science Museum

Steel sculpture set for the new Tate Modern Turbine Hall

Holistic archaeology at Wigmore Castle

Two scholarly exercises in assessing the roles of Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

The contemporary fair switches on to new technology

And a group of exhibitions, about Duchamp, Balthus and Basquiat, coincides with new art book releases this autumn

This second edition includes even more of the collection, providing a fine survey of the medium in America

In memory of the man behind Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Cy Twombly, James Rosenquist and Roy Lichtenstein

The two institutions already have a strong bond due to many shared exhibitions, and this partnership is set to expand

The works in question were smuggled out of Germany during the Nazi regime for safe-keeping

Painting, design, and decorative arts from Colonial times until the Second World War

George Baselitz and Mimmo Paladino have also been honoured

The coordination of the fair will be taken over by Messe Basel

One of the British Museum's finest treasures may depict a notoriously licentious Roman emperor

The Columbian artist makes stark sculptures which probe the solitude of death

Springfield: real or fake?

The letter was written by Giacomo Boni and dates from 1925

The Van Gogh drawing and Hans von Marées painting were part of a large collection which was forcibly auctioned

A new collection draws attention towards a neglected part of the Surrealist's output