A swift pre-dawn burglary at Greece’s biggest state art museum netted two oil paintings by 20th century masters Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.

Seán Scully insists his marriage and fatherhood have lifted the gloom in his monumental paintings, reports Marc O’Sullivan

A painting by Henri Matisse sold for €32.1m, a record price for a work by the French artist at auction – at a sale of art from the estate of Yves Saint Laurent, auction house Christie’s said.

ONE of the success stories of Cork's reign as European Capital of Culture (CoC), the city's Crawford Art Gallery, has every intention of carrying the momentum on into 2006.