The Art Fund has helped the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery buy a striking self - portrait by one of Scotland's greatest living artists...
This article titled «National
Portrait Gallery buys Tracey Emin's Death Mask» was written by Mark Brown Arts correspondent, for The Guardian on Thursday 13th April 2017.
Not exact matches
George Frederic Watts's only known three - quarter length self -
portrait has been
bought for the Watts
Gallery, thanks to a grant from the Art Fund.
John Macdonald Aiken's extravagant
Portrait of the Artist and his Wife will feature in Aberdeen Art
Gallery's new exhibition The Lady and the Vamp, after being bought by the gallery with help from the Ar
Gallery's new exhibition The Lady and the Vamp, after being
bought by the
gallery with help from the Ar
gallery with help from the Art Fund.
acrylic on canvas
portraits will be painted by Mesler live in the
gallery space, and available to
buy for only # 200 each!
A giant painting of one of Britain's most famous actor - managers by the master
portrait painter of his age has been bought by the National Portrait
portrait painter of his age has been
bought by the National
Portrait Portrait Gallery.
The National
Portrait Gallery has bought American artist Alex Katz's bold portrait of Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of American VOGUE with the help of the A
Portrait Gallery has
bought American artist Alex Katz's bold
portrait of Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of American VOGUE with the help of the A
portrait of Anna Wintour, Editor in Chief of American VOGUE with the help of the Art Fund.
As well as his own investment in art — he
bought Damien Hirst's giant gilded woolly mammoth skeleton, Gone But Not Forgotten, for $ 15m in 2014 — Blavatnik has made donations towards several UK arts institutions, including the National
Gallery, the National
Portrait Gallery and the British Museum.
Here you can
buy a copy of a self -
portrait by the Turner prize - winning Mark Wallinger for # 500; the real thing, at the London
gallery Anthony Reynolds, is # 75,000.
Neither of these stories are new, but I thought I would mention that Marc Quinn's solid gold Kate Moss sculpture has been unveiled and the National
Portrait Gallery in the UK is hoping to
buy his 2006 version of «Self.»
A version of his cinematic
portrait of Zidane — a black and white film in which the camera follows just the footballer in the space of a 90 - minute game and which was shown to great acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival — has also been
bought by Scottish National
Gallery of Modern Art.
By sponsoring revered arts institutions such as the British Museum, National
Portrait Gallery, Tate and Science Museum, BP
buys into their image and portrays itself as clean, caring and green.