The Museum de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) sits on Avenida Paulista, dramatically interrupting the canyon of towers that line the ...

Last week, an unassuming still life by 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin sold for €24.4 million ($26.8 million) at an auction in Paris, smashing presale expectations and stunning ...

An unknown buyer set a record for Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin when they paid €24.4 million ($26.8 million) for the still life The Basket of Wild Strawberries (1761) in March, only to have the French ...

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I love everything about autumn – the cool, crisp air, the warm sweaters, the sense that the holiday season will soon arrive. But most of all, I love autumn food! In my humble opinion, no time of the ...

Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin painted "The Scullery Maid" in 1738. She is scouring a long-handled saucepan, but it's not what she is doing that makes this picture wonderful, it is where her thoughts ...

The London-based dealer Simon Dickinson has been cleared of negligence over the sale of La Bénédicité (saying grace, 1744) by the 18th-century French artist Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin. In a ruling ...

Mark Hudson on why the painter of Boy Building a House of Cards,Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, remains important today . By Mark Hudson 26 March 2012 • 3:43pm Enigma variations: Chardin’s 'Boy Building ...

An art dealer has been cleared of acting negligently after securing the £1 million sale of a French 'masterpiece' from an aristocratic family's collection which was later resold for millions more.

An aristocratic couple are embroiled in a High Court claim against an art dealer over the £1 million sale of a French “masterpiece” from their family collection which was later resold for millions ...

Gagosian has done it again: produced another museum-quality show, this one devoted to images of artists’ studios, as recorded in photographs (on view at its uptown gallery) and in paintings (installed ...