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Giuseppe Penone presents two big gifts of drawings to Philadelphia Museum of Art and Centre Pompidou
Arte Povera sculptor hopes that his donations of hundreds of works on paper will start a dialogue
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This facsimile of a late 16th-century Italian manuscript on how to fence is a masterpiece of draughtsmanship
Camillo Palladini was a master swordsman whose work has been lost for centuries until this publication
ReviewBook Shorts
The full-colour beauty of the recently restored Catherine de’ Medici tapestries is revealed in this catalogue
Vibrant illustrations are accompanied by essays that discuss the history, making and purpose of the tapestries
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Old Masters, new tricks: Chatsworth House drawings are off to Sheffield
Almost 60 works by artists including Rembrandt, Annibale Carracci and Sebastiano del Piombo will go on show at the Millennium Gallery
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Paul McCarthy's Hammer Museum retrospective reveals lines of continuity
Los Angeles exhibition reveals how drawings have shaped the multi-media artist’s work over 56 years
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Celebrating a French artist who captured a young America
New-York Historical Society profiles the intrepid Baroness Hyde de Neuville
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A New York salute to Rube Goldberg and his outlandish contraptions
Queens Museum celebrates a cartoonist who seems more relevant than ever
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Albertina’s Albrecht Dürer drawings enjoy a rare outing
Exhibition will bring together Vienna museum’s collection with key loans from European institutions, as well as unveiling a raft of new theories
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This book of essays explores the varieties and definitions of Islamic art
The authors ask “What is Islamic about ‘Islamic’ art?”
InterviewPolitics
Drawing with the ashes of Isis-ravaged buildings: Piers Secunda on the art of destruction
Artist’s works on iconoclasm in Mosul are currently on show at the Imperial War Museum in London
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Star exhibit at the Met: the Christopher Dresser album the V&A could not afford
Modern designs at the Met
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This carefully selected exhibition of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo is small and perfectly formed
The MA curatorial show at the Barber Institute, Birmingham, challenges many of our assumptions
ReviewBook Shorts
A book of wallpaper art for students
The botanical illustrations of Alexander von Humboldt in poster form
ReviewArt market
Back to the drawing board: new London fair pushes works on paper
Draw Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery caters to fans of the quieter medium with a range of budgets
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Portrait sketch of Leonardo da Vinci discovered in Britain’s Royal Collection
The drawing, believed to be one of only two contemporary images of the artist, will go on show for the first time at the Queen’s Gallery in London
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Emma Kunz and the art of healing: drawings used in rituals come to London
Serpentine Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of the mystical Swiss artist’s work
BlogThe Buck stopped here
A gloomy Brittania and a tribute to gay Russian clubbing—political commentary abounds at Drawing Room biennial
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Restored Raphael cartoon gets new display at Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana
The full-scale preparatory drawing for the Vatican’s School of Athens fresco is going back on view after a four-year restoration
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Twelve Leonardo shows to open simultaneously in the UK to mark 500th anniversary of artist’s death
Drawings from the Royal Collection go on show around the country this week before larger surveys in London and Edinburgh later in the year
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Leonardo da Vinci's thumbprint discovered on drawing in Royal Collection
The mark is “the most convincing candidate for an authentic Leonardo fingerprint” among the Queen’s 550 works by the great artist
NewsArt fairs
New London fair in crowded art calendar looks at drawing in the digital age
Exhibitors at Draw Art Fair London in May will juxtapose drawings with related paintings and sculptures
NewsAlbrecht Dürer
Dürer used his famous Praying Hands drawing to advertise his talent
Chief curator of Vienna’s Albertina argues that the work, which shows the artist's own hands, was a finished work rather than preparatory drawing
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Big on Bruegel: Vienna museum assembles largest show on the artist
A literally once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at Kunsthistorisches Museum
NewsThree to see
Three shows to see in New York this weekend
Head downtown for Sarah Lucas, a deep-dive into LES galleries and Toyin Ojih Odutola's beguiling portraits
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Recognising Victor Hugo as an avant-garde artist
Drawings in a show opening at the Hammer testify to his feverish spiritual side
BlogIn the frame
Humour in the age of Trump—and far before it—explored at Washington, DC's National Gallery
NewsArtists
Jasper Johns show and catalogue raisonné open Menil Collection’s new Drawing Institute
The 88-year-old artist, who gets the institute’s inaugural show, was deeply involved in the drawings catalogue project
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A Käthe Kollwitz renaissance is under way (and about time, too)
A pair of publications shed new light on profoundly socially committed artist
InterviewFrieze New York
On the road, from Iraq to Germany
The Iraqi-Kurdish artist Hiwa K on migration and contemporary politics
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Drawings week hits Paris
The 27th edition of Salon du Dessin at Palais Brongniart assembles 39 dealers from Europe and the US
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Private View: our pick of March gallery shows
New shows at commercial galleries, from emerging names to rediscovered talents
NewsConservation & Preservation
Pastels: the 18th century’s answer to Photoshop
Getty show explores the versatility of the medium
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New discoveries add value to Old Master drawings
From Pontormo to Klimt, dealers invest in research in the hope of boosting prices
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Spotlight on… Master Drawings New York
Exhibitions to seek out at Manhattan's annual gallery trail, which now embraces paintings and sculptures
NewsVincent Van Gogh
New Vincent van Gogh drawing discovered
Unearthing of Montmartre sketch leads to authentication of second work
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Life drawing from George III to Iggy Pop
Royal Academy of Arts exhibition explores the history of drawing the human figure and how artists depict it today
NewsEducation
New lease of life for life drawing classes?
Age-old practice is being ‘gradually reinvigorated', but new frontier is seemingly in 3D reprographic skills
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Morgan Library explores how the Grand Siècle in Rome inspired the drawings of Poussin and Claude
The exhibition brings together more than 50 works created by French artists living abroad
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Antonio II Badile: An Italian Renaissance drawing collector and his family
Casting light on an overlooked but fascinating aspect of the Renaissance
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The V&A’s complete catalogue of Early Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish drawings from the 15th century to 1900
A true Benelux bonanza
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Collector Leon Black hires Met’s head of drawings to help buy more Old Masters
George Goldner will leave the Met in January but continue to serve as an advisor
ArchiveAmedeo Modigliani
Modigliani drawings show at Harris Lindsay
16 works originally given to Paul Alexandre help kick off London Art Week
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Books: Lambert Krahe as a collector for instruction, rather than pleasure
A biography of a perceptive 18th century collector
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Bacon estate says lover’s brother sold fakes
New details emerge in British courts about disputed drawings that first emerged in Italy
ArchiveOld Masters
Old Master sketches still draw new buyers
The experimental character and technical virtuosity of Old Master sketches are inspiring interest from new sectors of the art world.
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Uffizi-Tokyo Da Vinci deal
The Uffizi in Florence and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum will share Leonardo’s Tavola Doria
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Not a Bacon, expert tells court: The debate around Bacon's drawings continues
The chairman of the artist’s catalogue raisonné committee dismisses controversial drawings as “pastiches” in UK bankruptcy hearing
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Pompidou welcomes Daniel and Florence Guerlain’s deferred gift of 1000 contemporary drawings
The Guerlains are mindful of the fate of an ancestor’s impressionist works, having no wish for their collection to be divvied up in the same manner
ArchiveFrancis Bacon
Courtauld's Bacon debate on disputed drawings axed
Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino's collection of drawings has been a hot topic in the art world
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The Courtauld Institute and the Francis Bacon Estate discuss disputed Bacon drawings
A Courtauld conference will investigate works on paper said to be by the artist. Owner’s side to offer legal immunity
ArchiveArt dealers
Legal battle between dealers over Leonardo drawing draws to a close
The settlement has not yet been revealed
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Scholars divided over Leonardo attribution
Simon C. Dickinson Ltd is now the owner of Madonna and Child with St Anne and a Lamb, having reimbursed Nasser Kazeminy for the $7m he paid. If authentic, the gallery stands to make a profit, but if not then its value as an anonymous drawing is modest. So where did the drawing come from—and is it the real thing?
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Leonardo case exposes back-room deals
A court ruling over commission on the sale of a drawing has revealed a complex web of payments
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Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings on display at the British Museum
A highly distinguished and expertly organised exhibition
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Queen to send Leonardos on UK tour
Celebrating Prince Charles' 60th with 10 of the master's best works
ArchiveLucian Freud
Freud's new drawings leave Bacon unzipped
Freud drawings revealed at Frieze
ArchiveVienna
Albertina to reopen its collection to scholars—finally
The institution has installed an impressive high-tech robotic system to store and retrieve its holdings of prints and drawings
ArchiveDrawings
Drawing in the age of the pickled shark: BBC's new programme on drawing from the Renaissance to today
Surgeons and contemporary artists are still inspired by the draughtsmanship of Leonardo and Turner
ArchiveMuseums
MoMA appoints new chief curator of drawings
Cornelia H. Butler, previously at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, scores the role
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Fritz the Cat comic drawings hot on the art market, but highly rare
Robert Crumb, the creator, is now a cult figure in the contemporary art market
ArchiveArt fairs
From Italian Old Masters to Belgian Symbolists, Salon du Dessin is broad in range but intimate in atmosphere
The new location is drawing collectors into the Paris stock exchange
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Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and manuscripts at the Louvre
Many items on display have not been exhibited since 1952
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The Drawing centre opens 'The stage of drawing: gesture and act' with help from Tate
An unmissable eclectic exhibition
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Salon du Dessin is what a fair should be
A host of related events make this a “must” for drawings collectors
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Leonardo da Vinci on the divine and the grotesque at the Queen's Gallery
Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, plays host to highlights from the Royal Collection
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Leonardo da Vinci the master draughtsman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A new exhibition takes a closer look at Leonardo's work on paper
ArchiveToba Khedoori
Toba Khedoori's paper plains on show at David Zwirner
The artist's sprawling works will be on view until 16 November
ArchiveRestitution
British Museum Old Master drawings subject to restitution claim
Four drawings are being claimed by the heir of a Nazism victim
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Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci from the Royal Collection go on Golden Jubilee tour
The Queen's collection begin their celebratory journey in Graves Art Gallery Sheffield
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Now you see it, now you don’t: restorers wash Leonardo drawing away
Catastrophe strikes as restorers use routine conservation method
ArchiveArt fairs
Paris Museums support drawings fair Salon de Dessin for the first time
Special viewings arranged for expected international collectors
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One-way transfer of 19th-century works from Tate to British Museum planned
All 19th-century European drawings and watercolours in the Tate’s collection will be loaned to the BM, with the possibility of transferring ownership entirely
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“Overcoming all obstacles: Women of the Académie Julian”
Exhibition shows at Dixon Gallery, Memphis, 9 July-24 September
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The first museum show devoted to the Académie Julian
This provided women artists with vital instruction in life-drawing