Bien de Arte

14/03/2026

Lucian Freud
Bella and Esther
Ca 1987 - 1988
Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 88.9 cm
Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection: On Loan, Private Collection

10/02/2026

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La gigantesque reproduction d'un chef-d’œuvre de Robert Delaunay recouvre tout un mur en plein cœur de Paris, diffusant ainsi l'art dans l'espace public.

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08/02/2026

07/02/2026

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Pope Julius II gave Michelangelo an order he couldn't refuse: paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Michelangelo was furious. He was a sculptor, not a painter. He believed his rivals had convinced the Pope to give him this impossible job just to watch him fail.

The ceiling was 20 meters above the floor. Over 500 square meters of blank plaster.
So Michelangelo did something insane. He fired all his assistants, built his own scaffolding, and decided to paint the entire ceiling himself.

For four years, he worked in agony. He painted standing up with his arms stretched above his head. Paint dripped constantly into his eyes. His neck became so stiff that for months afterward, he could only read by holding letters above his head.

The Pope would climb the scaffolding and demand: "When will it be finished?"
Michelangelo's answer was always the same: "When I am finished."
Their arguments became legendary. Once, when the Pope threatened to throw him off the scaffolding, Michelangelo packed his bags and left Rome. The Pope had to send five horsemen to bring him back.

When the ceiling was unveiled in 1512, the entire city rushed to see it. Over 300 figures. Nine scenes from Genesis. And at the center — the Creation of Adam. God's finger reaching out to touch the finger of the first man.

The greatest work of art the world had ever seen. And he still insisted: "I am no painter."

Twenty-four years later, at age 61, they called him back. This time: paint The Last Judgment on the wall behind the altar.
He didn't paint a celebration. He painted his nightmares.

Over 400 figures — twisted, falling. Angels pulling the saved to heaven while demons drag the damned to hell. And right in the middle, Michelangelo painted himself — not as a saint, but as a flayed skin. A human hide with no body inside. His own sagging face, empty and haunted, staring out from the wall.

When a cardinal called the nudity "disgraceful" and said the painting belonged in a tavern, Michelangelo painted that cardinal's face on one of the figures in hell. Complete with donkey ears.
After that, the Pope made him chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica. At 71, most men would have retired. Michelangelo designed the dome that would become the most famous silhouette in Rome. He refused payment.

"I do this for the love of God," he said.

07/02/2026

06/02/2026

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ iconic “Untitled” (Go-Go Dancing Platform), 1991 is coming to New York this February.

Once a day, at an undisclosed time, a lamé-clad go-go dancer with a personal listening device ascends a light blue platform for approximately five minutes before disappearing again. When unoccupied, the platform remains a sculpture defined by the possibility of activation.

📆 Opening 12 February at our New York, 22nd Street gallery location. Learn more and plan your visit https://hauser-wirth.visitlink.me/3NPyAY

06/02/2026

: When Giada Damen, an expert in Christie’s Old Master drawings department, received an unsolicited photograph via the auction house’s “Request an Auction Estimate” online service, she could never have imagined what had just rolled into her inbox.

The curious but unsuspecting owner had just submitted a major discovery: a previously unknown study by Michelangelo for his world-famous frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. Damen identified the work in red chalk as a preparation for the right foot of the monumental figure of the “Libyan Sibyl,” which is located at the far east end of the Sistine ceiling. According to Christie’s, Michelangelo created the study around 1511–12 just before he embarked on the second half of the massive mural.

Now, that work has set a new record as the most expensive drawing by the Renaissance artist, clobbering expectations when it sold for $27.2 million with premium on Thursday afternoon. Estimated at $1.5 to $2 million, a heated bidding war lasted for about 45 minutes, starting at $1.4 million and climbing steadily upwards.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4kihlSu

Article by Eileen Kinsella

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Pictured: Michelangelo Buonaratti, Red-chalk study for foot of the Libyan Sibyl. Image courtesy Christie's.

06/02/2026

Un dessin préparatoire de Michel-Ange, représentant un pied, a été adjugé 27,2 millions de dollars lors d'une vente à New York, établissant un nouveau record pour l'artiste.

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05/02/2026

impresionante

27/09/2024

Une série "face à l'œuvre", ça vous dit ?
L'intérêt c'est de découvrir le format des œuvres, le rapport au tableau, à la sculpture est toujours une relation physique.
Alors ne pas oublier d'aller dans les expositions, dans les musées et galeries.
Keith Haring.