Oil Paintings Market News

Last July, with the help of two assistant, The Croatia painter Dezulo Hilogravk finished the biggest oil painting in the world “Wave” in the Polongjudge Barback in the capital of Croatia Zagreb, which took half year for creation. In order to paint on the canvas with a total area 13000 square meters, they have used [...]

Feb. 19, 2008 — The oldest known oil painting, dating from 650 A.D., has been found in caves in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, according to a team of Japanese, European and U.S. scientists.
The discovery reverses a common perception that the oil painting, considered a typically Western art, originated in Europe, where the earliest examples date to [...]