Patricia Albers, Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter, A Life, Knopf, 2011, 544 pp., $40. There are many ways of writing about the life of a famous artist. One is the scholarly way, another is the fawning, ...

View on Karl & Faber Website Contact Karl & Faber Kunstauktionen GmbH Description: Lesser Ury Lady in a café, Berlin Lot 710 Oil on canvas.

A painting of Lady Godiva has been loaned to France ahead of the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 19th Century artwork of Coventry's medieval legend was painted by John Collier and was part ...