The 1960 painting by the Harlem artist is on the auction block, months after it was saved from a condemned Cape Cod house.

Abstract art has its roots in ... mostly of black with only a few flashes of colour. It was so heavily criticised by John Ruskin, the leading art critic of the time, that Whistler sued him for ...

They also examined Gustav Klimt’s 1909 painting “L’Arbre de Vie” (“Tree of Life”). They found that the trees depicted in the artworks, even when abstract or stylistic, mostly ...