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In search of the perfect glass of Beaujolais

06.11.09
In the Beaujolais region of France, Daisy Prince found naked grape pickers, bowler-hatted counts and a fairy-tale castle... more

Pointless pleasures from Corot to Monet

16.07.09
Never mind the gaps in the National Gallery’s survey of landscape, the joy is in the wonderfully impetuous sketches.... more

An Englishman all at sea with form and perspective

21.11.08
It is not a joke to describe Alfred Sisley as the English Impressionist, for Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Cézanne were his friends.... more

Smaller art galleries paint bright picture as visitors rise

20.11.08
Smaller art galleries in London have recorded a dramatic increase in visitors... more

Art prices come crunching down as New York sale falls £75m short

04.11.08
Sotheby's prime New York sale of impressionist and modern paintings saw only nine of 70 pictures and sculptures make their estimates ... more

Cézanne takes you down...

18.07.08
The Courtauld Institute offers a rare chance to get close to the most widely influential and revered of all the Impressionists. ... more

Sainsbury's strange gift to Tate

11.07.08
We have much for which to thank late National Gallery benefactor Simon Sainsbury, who has bequeathed 18 pictures to the nation - but his taste was quirky rather than sure, says Brian Sewell.... more

London's must-see art exhibitions

09.07.08
From Damien Hirst to Cézanne, there are several must-see exhibitions on this summer.... more

Celebration as Sotheby's sale tops £100 million

26.06.08
Sotheby's is celebrating after more than £100 million was spent during a night of record-breaking art sales... more

Courtauld shows all Cézannes

25.06.08
The Courtauld Gallery is to show its entire collection of works by Paul Cézanne for the first time; including Card Players and Man With A Pipe.... more

Gormley joins Monet for a record art sale season

17.06.08
More than £200 million worth of art, including a large model of Antony Gormley's Angel Of The North, goes on view at Sotheby's in London... more

Rare glimpse of 1890s Paris

16.06.08
The Courtauld Gallery is lending rarely seen scenes of Parisian society at the time of Cézanne and Toulouse-Lautrec for an exhibition in London... more

Roll up, roll up

28.03.08
Dulwich Gallery’s survey of 100 years of American painting is a confidence trick, a parade of very modest pictures, says Brian Sewell.... more

Royal Academy's Russian revelation

22.01.08
Masterpieces lent by the greatest Russian galleries are ready for viewing at the Royal Academy in a blockbuster show that nearly didn't happen.... more

Are the Russians coming?

20.12.07
Academy blockbuster in doubt as export licences are blocked... more

Smaller art galleries show their best assets

21.11.07
Some of the smaller gems among London's treasure-house of art galleries are attracting record numbers of visitors.... more

Iron curtain masterpieces at the Royal Academy

22.10.07
Modern masterpieces from Russia's greatest museums including one of Henri Matisse's most famous works are to go on show in London.... more

£150m art show that's all for sale

11.10.07
Christie's has launched a new gallery space in London with a £150 million public exhibition.... more

A Curious Wellcome

10.09.07
Haphazard and lacking academic rigour, the medical curios of the revived Wellcome Collection display a wayward urge to amuse rather than inform, says Brian Sewell.... more

At home with the Bonapartes

20.08.07
Napoleon's wife, the Empress Josephine, built an art gallery and decorated their retreat at Malmaison in the latest style. A new exhibition at Somerset House evokes this extraordinary woman.... more

Cezanne's watercolour makes £12m at sale

09.05.07
Nearly £140 million of art was sold in one night as buyers sent prices rocketing during an auction in New York.... more

£125m worth of masterpieces go on show

18.04.07
The most expensive post-war painting to come to auction is among £125 million worth of art going on show in London.... more

Learning from the old masters

16.03.07
Eighty-year-old Leon Kossoff has been a student of the National Gallery for his entire artistic life, drawing and etching directly from the paintings he admires in its collection.... more

Critic's choice: top five exhibitions

08.03.07
Canaletto, Renoir and Gilbert & George are among the exhibitions well worth catching in the capital this week.... more

A blot on Renoir's landscape

26.02.07
Renoir is féted for sensuous female flesh and convivial cafè-concert scenes, but the new exhibition at the National Gallery tells another story.... more

Journeys into the unknown Renoir

20.02.07
A new Pierre-Auguste Renoir exhibtion at the National Gallery - the first major Renoir show in London for 22 years - showcases 70 of the artist's lesser-seen landscapes.... more

Sotheby's reveals £150m lot

31.01.07
Sotheby's has unveiled a remarkable collection of Impressionist and modern art that it expects to sell for £150 million next week.... more

Let the Welsh pay for their own gallery

15.01.07
The principality has put a ragbag of its pictures briefly on show at Christie's - and brought the begging bowls too, says Brian Sewell.... more

$30m for paintings in bumper art sale

08.11.06
Two artworks have each sold for more than $30 million at the biggest Sotheby's auction of Impressionist and modern art in 16 years. The sale in New York made a total of $238 million. ... more

Sensational Cezanne

03.10.06
Paul Cezanne was largely ignored in his lifetime, but the National Gallery's free retrospective will cement his reputation as a modern giant.... more

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