Richard Cork

‘North Cape’, probably 1840s, by Peder Balke

In from the cold

6 December 2014 9:00 am

You won’t have heard of Peder Balke. Yet this long-neglected painter from 19th-century Norway is now the subject of a…

‘Portrait of Juan de Pareja’ by Velázquez

Sale of the century

22 November 2014 9:00 am

Nothing could have prepared the art world for the astounding moment in 1970 when, at a Christie’s sale on 27…