The Romanian government is suing Christie’s auction house and a Russian billionaire to halt the sale of a painting by El Greco that it claims was stolen by the last king of Romania over 70 years ago, ...
The sale of the San Sebastian painting by the Spanish artist El Greco, a work of art that was part of the collection of the ...
Christie’s was set this month to sell El Greco’s painting Saint Sébastien, which was painted between 1610 and 1614, but pulled the piece after the Romanian government tried to stake a claim ...
Nine monumental paintings by El Greco once decorated monastery walls in Toledo, Spain, where the Greek-born artist spent most of his career. Most of these canvases eventually ended up elsewhere—but ...
According to sources and court documents, Christie's was scheduled to auction El Greco's painting Saint Sébastien this month. The picture was created between 1610 and 1614, however Christie's withdrew ...
El Greco's Saint Sebastian (ca. 1610–14) has been pulled from auction at Christie's after intervention from the Romanian government, which has claimed the work as being "unequivocally the ...
Spain’s Prado Museum is mounting an exhibit that brings together the works the Greek painter Doménikos Theotokópoulos, better known as El Greco, completed for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el ...