Tuesday, 10 November 2026
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An exhibition devoted to Artemisia Gentileschi’s Florentine years offers an opportunity to consider the distance between artistic reputation, institutional priorities and the quality of the paintings.
An outgoing Artemisia Gentileschi loan has opened a space for two less familiar paintings at Bologna’s Pinacoteca Nazionale. From 13 October, two depictions of Saint John the Baptist, one by Michele Desubleo and the other by Flaminio Torri and Simone Cantarini, return to public view after many years in storage.
Frieze Masters returns to Regent’s Park on 14 October, bringing together more than 140 international galleries. Among the highlights are an exceptional Stanley Spencer at Offer Waterman, a monumental Van Dyck at Colnaghi and a magnificent Jan Brueghel the Elder still life with a remarkable history.
An extraordinary concentration of masterpieces by Hepworth, Nicholson, Lanyon, Bomberg and Auerbach makes Christie’s forthcoming October auctions a feast for collectors. Sotheby’s comparatively modest offering raises a wider question: has Christie’s dominance of the Modern British market become self-perpetuating?
The newly published catalogue for the Vienna auction on 21 October includes an impressive Luca Giordano and a newly attributed Saint Jerome by Hendrick de Somer.
Painted during the artist’s years in the Lake District, all four works were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in 1946.
A €3.1 million renovation has returned the museums to public use, with a rehang of around 100 paintings tracing the formation of the Royal Collections across four centuries.
Frankfurt’s Städel Museum has acquired one of Guido Reni’s earliest documented portraits, a painting whose authorship was rediscovered after it appeared at auction in 2004 as a work of the Roman School.
Barbara Hepworth’s remarkable 1946 stone carving, Sculpture with Colour (Eos), is returning to Christie’s a decade after achieving $5.43 million in New York. Recently exhibited in the Courtauld Gallery’s acclaimed Hepworth in Colour exhibition, the work will be among the highlights of Christie’s Modern British and Irish Art Evening Sale in London on 21 October 2026.
The open-access issue brings together studies of Hapsburg patronage, Rubens’s globes, Rembrandt print paper and the authorship of two paintings associated with Johannes Vermeer.
Due to open on 24 October 2026, the retrospective is scheduled to bring together more than 170 works and archival items from an eight-decade career.
La Tribune de l’Art describes a fair focused on Italian art, where export restrictions may constrain overseas buyers and a river scene dated c. 1588-1590 drew particular attention.
Research with the heirs’ team linked the 1651 painting to Jacques Goudstikker’s trading stock. The Restitutions Committee found that its wartime loss was involuntary.
A new exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath examines how southern England’s chalk landscapes helped artists rethink landscape painting in the early twentieth century. Eric Ravilious joins William Nicholson, Paul Nash, John Nash, Tirzah Garwood and Peggy Angus in a selection spanning the 1910s to the 1940s.
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Very, very slow to this but 'new' attribution to Pensionante del Saraceni seems entirely convincing. A striking Caravaggesque painting now with Colnaghi invites a fresh look at one of the most elusive painters of early seventeenth-century Rome - and at just how closely he may have understood Caravaggio's art.
An early highlight announced of Frieze Masters which opens 14-18th October 2026
Barbara Hepworth’s Orpheus (Maquette I) returns to the auction market at Christie’s this October, offering a fresh test of demand for one of the sculptor’s most distinctive works of the 1950s.
Experience the first exhibition dedicated to Barbara Hepworth’s deep connection with Greece and the extraordinary impact it had on her art - 21 November 2026 – 2 May 2027
