"I’ve always found it difficult to describe to students and trainees what it was like to work in the midst of the [AIDS] epidemic. Sue Coe’s drawings say it all, and more.”...Read More
“Few artists are as universally loved as Käthe Kollwitz” — Elizabeth Prelinger, National Gallery of Art Like other successful women artists of her generation, Käthe Kollwitz was an...Read More
“You are a very great painter, and the world will hear of you” — Elias Canetti, letter to the artist Born in 1906, Marie-Louise Motesiczky belonged to one of Vienna’s most prominen...Read More
“Modersohn-Becker painted from an implicitly feminist point of view, granting women a memorable emotional complexity through the physicality of her paint and the solidity of her forms” ...Read More
Amadeo Modigliani became the latest man to join the nine-figure club when his "Reclining Nude" sold for $170.4 million at Christie’s on November 9, 2015. Why are all the most expensive artists male?...Read More
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was almost completely unknown when she died following childbirth at the age of thirty-one, but within fifteen years she had become a near mythic figure in her native...Read More
Noted art historian Ernst Gombrich compared Marie-Louise Motesiczky’s paintings of her mother, Henriette, to the work of Albrecht Dürer. The Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti considered these portraits ...Read More