An untitled painting attributed to Natalia Goncharova is one of the works reported to have been seized in Paris Image: © Dmtriy Spektorer: French court bailiffs in ...

2024 ShareShare This Article Over 100 pieces of Russian avant-garde art were seized in Paris by French authorities on suspicion that they were stolen. A private collector has alleged that they ...

belonging to the avant-garde, by contrast, was a career move. Since Paris in the late 19th century was the undisputed center of European art, large numbers of artists, both French and foreign ...

Marie Laurencin, Women in the Forest (Femmes dans la forêt), 1920. Marie Laurencin was a star of French avant-garde painting in the decades before World War II. She sold pieces to the famed ...

The term is borrowed from French, where it originally referred ... ushering in new eras of thought and culture. For an artist, to be avant-garde, then, is to embody both aesthetic and social ...

But it was in France that he created those works, and it was as leader of the French avant-garde that he became the most celebrated artist of the modern world. So how was it that he never became a ...

But such is the case with the aptly titled “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”—an enlightening, beautifully orchestrated show of some 110 paintings ...