Pattern is a key part of organising and decorating design. In expressive art, pattern can be used to add variety to a composition, to reflect patterns used in the real world, or to help create a sense ...

When it goes to auction later this month, Gustav Klimt’s final artwork could become the most expensive painting ever sold in Europe. The Viennese artist completed Lady With Fan just before his death ...

Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss is a deceptively simple portrait of lust and love. But beyond that glittery gold leaf, the work is full of fascinating facts. In 1907, perhaps reeling from the poor reception ...

The bang of an auctioneer's hammer at Sotheby's London on Tuesday brought a 10-minute bidding battle to an end and set a new record for the most expensive work of art ever sold in Europe. Austrian ...

When the MFA received a request for three of its paintings by Monet to be featured in a major exhibition at the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, Ronni Baer, the MFA’s senior curator of European paintings, ...

The final painting by artist Gustav Klimt is expected to fetch up to £65m when it is auctioned in London later this month. The estimated value of the portrait makes it the most valuable painting ever ...