Marie Kuyken (1898–1988) has remained one of the Netherlands’ most neglected designers, in part because so few of her colourful and imaginative ‘cloisonné panels’ have survived. But that is about to

The switch to underglaze painting posed not only technical and artistic challenges but also a chemical one. At Royal Copenhagen, it was the chemical engineer, Adolphe Clement (1860-1933), who...

This autumn, the Gemeentemuseum is holding an exhibition of 20th-century Spanish masterpieces: leading works by Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Gris, Fernández, Tàpies etc. seldom seen outside the walls of

Van Gogh, Monet, Isaac Israels, Van Dongen, Jongkind, Breitner: a roll call of major artists whose works often come with the label ‘Provenance: Ivo Bouwman’. Bouwman is a Hague art dealer and

The publication of Piet Mondrian: a Life gives us a radically different picture of world-famous painter and co-founder of De Stijl, Piet Mondrian. Gone is the impression of a lonely, isolated artist...

Wojciech  Weiss (1875-1950) is perhaps the most important of all early twentieth-century Polish artists. Like his contemporaries Mondrian and Kandinsky, he looked for new ways to integrate

The work of Hague artist Gerard Verdijk (1934-2005) is so varied that it almost seems it must have been made by several artists. Thanks to a donation of works on paper Kunstmuseum Den Haag is now able