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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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.