Can Superman handle a Soviet machine-gun flanked by Santa Claus with binoculars and rifle, while McDonald's clown mascot Ronald drinks beer behind their backs?

British-born Leonora Carrington, the Surrealist artist who ran off with Max Ernst and escaped from a mental hospital before fleeing Nazi Europe, has died in Mexico at age 94, officials said Thursday.

An art nouveau mansion designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi was officially re-inaugurated Wednesday in Barcelona after a seven-year renovation costing nine million euros.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Rare paintings by some of Egypt's most renowned artists thought to have belonged to the country's former royal family have been found by workers renovating a Cairo museum.

Works by many of the world's greatest modern and impressionist artists will be sold at auction in June with the closure of the gallery of late Swiss art trader Ernst Beyeler, auctioneers Christie's said on Sunday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Andy Warhol self-portrait completed shortly before his death is expected to sell for as much as $40 million at auction next month, Christie's said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Francis Bacon self-portrait triptych is expected to fetch more than $25 million when it hits the auction block next month, Christie's said Monday.

First it was Claude Monet. Now it's Edouard Manet's turn to get the blockbuster treatment in the city where he was born, lived, worked and died.

A painting by French impressionist Paul Gauguin displayed at the National Gallery in Washington was attacked last week by a gallery visitor, The Washington Post reported.

A painting by French impressionist Paul Gauguin displayed at the National Gallery in Washington was attacked last week by a gallery visitor, The Washington Post reported.

A new auction record for contemporary Chinese art was set in Hong Kong Sunday, when a triptych by Zhang Xiaogang sold for HK$79 million (more than $10 million) at a Sotheby's auction.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A drawing by American Pop Art master Roy Lichtenstein, which was won for $10 in a 1960s lottery, could fetch more than $1 million when it is auctioned in May, according to Christie's.

LONDON (Reuters) - Christie's auctioneers will offer a portrait by Lucian Freud which it described as "seminal" in the career of the British artist at a sale in London on June 28.

Polish customs officers have seized an unknown painting by French Impressionist master Auguste Renoir in a package destined for the United States, investigators said Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oscar winning actor Robert De Niro told a packed Manhattan courtroom on Friday he had never received payment from an art gallery director on trial for allegedly pocketing the proceeds of three paintings by his late father, Robert De Niro Sr.

The Himalayan town of Rishikesh in northern India is welcoming hundreds of foreign tourists for its annual yoga festival, with visitors keen to learn the ancient art by the sacred River Ganges.

Early French Renaissance art receives the royal treatment in the first major US exhibit devoted to the period which opened this week at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Early French Renaissance art receives the royal treatment in the first major US exhibit devoted to the period which opened this week at the Art Institute of Chicago.

A colossal self-portrait by "pope of pop" Andy Warhol sold for 10.8 million pounds (17.4 million dollars, 12.8 million euros) at Christie's in London on Wednesday, doubling pre-auction expectations.

An historic painting by French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin failed to sell at a London auction Wednesday despite being displayed for the first time in 15 years.