Here are a few examples: Painting in oils.
This was shown by two examples of paintings which were painted with a saccharide binder, whose sugar profile did not match those of the reference arabic, tragacanth and fruit tree gums, or could not be attributed to any of them for geographical reasons.
The current show, "The Lucid Eye," for example, features paintings by the artist Joan Semmel, who was born in the Bronx in 1932.
For example, 13 paintings, including a Rembrandt and a Vermeer, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990 and are probably stashed, seasoned art detectives say, somewhere in southern France or Spain.
He seems to have loved the pictures he bought, collecting, for example, the paintings of Carlo Maratta almost obsessively, even though the 17th-century Italian's ranking was in sharp decline and now he's almost forgotten.
For example, numerous paintings from France are in the show "Manet-Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (through June 8); and in "Matisse Picasso" at the Museum of Modern Art in Queens (through May 19).
Though famed for his detailed prints and illustrations, Hokusai was also fond of displaying his artistic prowess in public making, for example, huge paintings (some fully 200 square metres [about 2,000 square feet] in area) of mythological figures before festival crowds, in both Edo and Nagoya.
For example, my paintings are based on ornamented windows from a 50s modernist building in Sao Paulo.
But throughout the evening many works sold for well under their estimates, and some average examples of paintings by Renoir, Bonnard and Picasso failed to sell at all.
But his holdings extend far beyond that, with dozens of examples of paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures by art stars like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman.
