Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (1908-1992)

The culmination of her formal explorations since the 1930s, this painting by Helena Vieira da Silva also reflects a new approach to space in her twilight years.

Pablo Picasso and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, the anticipated leading artists, played their roles perfectly.

Works by Bernar Venet, Le Corbusier, Zao Wou Ki and Vieira da Silva illustrate the vitality of modern drawings.

A modern art collection featuring three works by Marquet.

In 1976, Joaquim Vital, a Portuguese poet living in exile in France, founded the Éditions de la Différence. The publishing company was sponsored by Patrick Waldberg (an American art historian "of French culture" who specialised in Surrealism), and was...

If there is a collection that must not be missed under any circumstances, it is the one put together decades ago by James Bismuth, an agricultural commodities broker, who died last December at the age of 89.

With this portrait, Max Ernst acclaims Leonardo da Vinci, whose treatise inspired his painting.

After four years of restoration work, the Cistercian abbey is opening to the public with the Brache-Bonnefoi Collection. A stunning combination of modern art and medieval cultural heritage.

After viewing a red chalk drawing of Jesus Christ in a private collection, the scholar at the UNESCO Center in Florence was certain the work was by da Vinci. In La Stampa she argued that “This is the true face of Salavator Mundi”. “It recalls everything in the drawings of Leonardo...” (Artnet)

Unlike what might be commonly thought, azulejos take their name not from their traditional blue color but from the Arabic al zulaydj, meaning a small enameled polished stone intended to copy ancient mosaics. Portugal gave them a unique artistic and monumental grandeur.