click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait.

Simultaneously still and transporting, set on the rooibos-growing slopes of South Africa's Cedarberg mountains ... and weary before its time, the face of twentysomething Carissa (Gretchen ...

A painting of an African prince by Gustav Klimt, lost since World War II and recently restituted, is on offer at TEFAF.

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million. It is currently on offer at an art fair but even more exciting than the price is the story behind it. For the longest ...