Portuguese Antique

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, whose buildings are praised for their careful use of natural materials and their unexpected dashes of color, has won the 2011 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the prize’s jury announced Monday. Souto de Moura, 58, joins Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano in receiving the top […]

AUSTIN, Texas – Austin Auction Gallery will conduct an eclectic auction Sunday, Feb. 27, beginning at 1 p.m. Central. The auction will feature over 400 lots of antiques, fine art, jewelry, sterling silver and collectibles from the 17th through the 19th centuries. LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding. An important group of 17th-century through 19th-centuy […]

LONDON (AP) – Portuguese-British artist Paula Rego, who created bold, visceral works inspired by fairy tales, her homeland and her own life, has died at age 87. The Victoria Miro Gallery, which represents Rego, said June 1 that she died “peacefully this morning, after a short illness, at home in north London, surrounded by her family.”