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Odilon Redon: A Collector's Guide to the Father of Symbolist Dreams

Odilon Redon spent more than two decades working almost entirely in black before he ever touched a flower painting. Here's the story behind his jewel-toned bouquets, and what to know...

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Auguste Renoir: A Collector's Guide to Impressionism's Painter of Joy

Auguste Renoir painted crowds having a good time better than almost anyone in the nineteenth century, at the exact moment Impressionism was being invented. Here's the story behind Bal du...

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Gustav Klimt: A Collector's Guide to Vienna's Golden Age Master

Gustav Klimt spent less than fifteen years working in gold leaf, yet those years produced the single most recognizable painting to come out of Vienna. Here's the story behind The...

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Hiroshi Yoshida: A Collector's Guide to the Shin-hanga Master

The Western-trained oil painter who reinvented the Japanese woodblock. Yoshida's life, technique, and what drives collector value.

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Paul Gauguin Art Prints: A Collector's Guide to Post-Impressionist Colour

Paul Gauguin gave up a career as a stockbroker to pursue a radically new painting practice. A collector's guide to Post-Impressionist colour, Synthetism, the Tahiti years, and choosing the right...

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Karl Blossfeldt Art Prints: The Photographer Who Turned Plants into Architecture

Karl Blossfeldt photographed plants for thirty years before anyone outside his classroom saw the images. A collector's guide to the photographer who turned botany into architecture — and inadvertently became...

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Alphonse Mucha Art Prints: A Collector's Guide to Art Nouveau's Master Designer

On New Year's Day 1895, an unknown Czech illustrator put up a poster across Paris and became famous overnight. A collector's guide to Mucha's Art Nouveau visual system, the Gismonda...

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Wassily Kandinsky: A Collector's Guide to Abstract Art's First Theorist

The law professor who became a painter, the three career phases every collector should know, and why Bauhaus-era Kandinsky is the most collected abstract work of the twentieth century.

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