An Egyptian-born magnate behind a recent sale of huge West African and Iraqi oil interests to China pledged 20 million Swiss francs to expand Geneva's art and history museum, authorities said Friday. Addax chief Jean Claude Gandur's donation (18.6 million dollars, 13.6 million euros) would double other private and public funding to revive a planned modern ...

The world's biggest antique fair opened its doors Friday to collectors and the curious in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht with a rare Paul Gauguin painting in the spotlight, organisers said. Some 260 art and antiques dealers from 17 countries are to display nearly 30,000 paintings, sculptures, items of furniture, jewelry, porcelain, clothes and manuscripts until March ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Sotheby's will auction a painting by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot worth around $1.5 million after it was returned to the heirs of the original owners, Jewish bankers forced to flee Europe in World War Two. "Jeune femme a la fontaine," which the auctioneer said ranked among the French artist's finest figure paintings of the 1860s and ...