A massive exhibition celebrating the bicentenary of Jacques Louis-David, whose paintings chronicled the French Revolution and Napoleonic era in real time, opened at the Louvre in Paris.

In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative ...

PARIS — French painter Pierre Soulages, an icon of post-World War II European abstract art famed for his use of black, has died, according to the Soulages Museum in his hometown of Rodez. He was 102.

Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.

Pierre Soulages, the abstract French painter who for more than 40 years dedicated his work solely to the color black, has died at the age of 102. The news was announced by the Musée Soulages in his ...

French painters Jean Siméon Chardin and Édouard Manet both created well-known paintings that depicted children blowing bubbles through straw-like tubes, albeit painted more than a century apart. Those ...

LONDON – Scottish painter Jack Vettriano, known for his works depicting elegant men and women on dreamlike beaches, has been found dead in his apartment in France, his publicist said Monday. He was 73 ...

A painting by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, believed to be depicting his muse and partner Dora Maar, fetched 27 million euros ...

It is one thing to know, perhaps vaguely, that many American artists ventured to France in the mid-19th through early 20th centuries to study in French academies and ateliers. It’s another to ...

The fake paintings were being offered for between about $465,000 and $150 million, police said in a statement.