Art History

October 12, 2026

Monet’s Painting of a Normandy Landscape Heads To Auction, Expected To Fetch Nearly $20 Million

Few artists captured the fleeting effects of light quite like Claude Monet. Now, nearly 100 years after the famed painter’s death in Giverny in 1926, his painting Bord des falaises à Pourville (or Cliffside at Pourville), is heading to auction at Christie’s. The celebrated work, which Monet painted in the seaside town of Pourville in Normandy, France, is expected to sell for €11 million to €15 million ($12.67 million to $17.27 million).

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April 13, 2026

A $1 Million Pablo Picasso Painting Is Being Raffled Off for Only $116

At the end of 2025, we reported on the third edition of the 1 Picasso for 100 Euros charity raffle, which gives anyone the chance to win a Pablo Picasso painting worth €1 million (about $1.17 million). Now, there’s only one day left to enter before the highly anticipated drawing takes place live on April 14. The painting up for auction, Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman)

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March 30, 2026

U.S.’s First Comprehensive Exhibition on Renaissance Master Raphael Coming to NYC

Despite living a relatively brief life, Italian Renaissance master Raphael left behind one of the world’s most indispensable legacies when he died in 1520 at only 37 years old. The Old Master, alongside luminaries like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, revolutionized Renaissance art, playing with narrative, emotion, perspective, and composition at an unprecedented scale. Even so, Raphael hasn’t been the subject of a comprehensive exhibition in the United States—that is, until now.

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