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.

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million and currently on offer at an art fair. But what's the story behind the painting? For the longest time, "Portrait of ...

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.