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Christie's Sale of El Greco Painting Blocked by Romanian Government
Per the provided provenance, the art advisory group Giraud Pissarro Segalot acquired the El Greco for an anonymous collector in 2010. The group disbanded the following year. Additionally ...
Chicago Sun-Times5y
Art Institute celebrates El Greco on a lavish scale befitting Greek master’s grandest work
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). View of Toledo, about 1598–99. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H. O. Havemeyer Collection. When papal support was not forthcoming after six years ...
New York Magazine18y
The Spanish Exposition
From El Greco to Picasso” is the latest art spectacle staged by the Guggenheim ... such as “Ladies,” “Crucifixions,” “Monks,” “Weeping Women,” “Knights and Ghosts, ...
The Washington Post1y
Transformed by compassion
El Greco’s divine painting of Saint Martin has the power, and the legs, to transcend the everyday The legs, both human and equine, are what animate this picture by the great El Greco.
Wall Street Journal11y
On the Trail of El Greco
explores the relationship between the texts El Greco collected and his own erudite art. This summer, "El Greco and Modern Painting," also at the Prado (from June 24 through Oct. 5), will chart the ...
Smithsonian Magazine4y
Is This Religious Scene a Long-Overlooked El Greco Painting?
El Greco created multiple depictions of Christ carrying the cross throughout his career. One of the earliest versions, now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features a similar composition ...