In the course of his very short life, Gottlieb painted dozens of extraordinary works that have since found homes in museums in Eastern Europe where he has long ... status of a founding father of ...

Along with his more traditional ink washes, Xu also created large-scale oil paintings in a European academic style that depicted ... in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...

Sophie McAloone, the conservation manager at the Fine Art Restoration Company, said that "modern unvarnished" paintings like ... lack of a traditional coating layer, and intensity of flat colour ...