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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 ...
The Washington Post5y
Compassion. Claustrophobia. Originality. Why El Greco inspired so many great modern artists.
“View of Toledo” (about 1598—99) by El Greco. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929./Art Institute of Chicago ...
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, ...
Reuters11y
El Greco paintings return to Toledo for anniversary
The centrepiece of the commemorations is the biggest ever gathering of El Greco paintings - in an exhibition in Toledo that runs March 14-June 14. More than 100 canvases - many of them painted in ...
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 ...
Wall Street Journal10y
El Greco at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
How did El Greco move from painting icons on the island of Crete to the elongated, expressionist works that made him famous and influenced artists like Pablo Picasso and Paul Cézanne? To mark the ...