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On May 19, 2026, Artcurial announced the upcoming auction of five trial proofs and a signed final version of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's colour lithograph "La Femme à la Fourrure" (The Woman in Fur), depicting the Austrian prostitute and model known as "La Goulue" or "La Femme à la Fourrure." The.
On May 29, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery announced the exhibition "Robert Mapplethorpe. Le forme della bellezza," presenting approximately 200 photographs by the American artist (1946–1989).
Tate St Ives will present a major retrospective of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912–2004), a key figure in British modernism and the St Ives artistic community, from October 24, 2026 to May 3, 2027.
On June 23, 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler reported that Barry Flanagan’s work is the subject of solo exhibitions at Fundació J. Llorens Artigas in Gallifa and at Palazzo Collicola in Spoleto, the latter curated by Dr. Jo Melvin and accompanied by public events on 22 February and 18 April.
On June 11, 2026, Thaddaeus Ropac opened the exhibition Barceló Printmaker, which presents around thirty prints by Miquel Barceló, most of them recent and produced at the Barcelona workshop of Joan Roma and Takeshi Motomiya.
The Getty Museum has published an article examining the use of white across art history, from Paleolithic cave drawings made with calcite and chalk to lead white pigment in European painting and modern photographic prints.
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