Sentences with phrase «by a female artist ever»
Last November, Georgia O'Keeffe's Jimson Weed / Flower No. 1 became the most expensive work by a female artist ever sold at auction, fetching $ 44.4 million (see Wall Flowers — women in historical art collections).
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This exhibition brings together some of her most important works, including Jimson Weed / White Flower No. 1 1932, the most expensive painting by a female artist ever sold at auction.
Not exact matches
In Delahunty's words, this sculpture is «one of the first commissioned works by a living female artist to be installed at the entrance of an American Museum» and it is «by far the most ambitious sculpture she has ever made in terms of scale and painted surface.»
The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili has been a bit chary, let's say, of showing in New York City ever since a certain Mayor Rudolf Giuliani threatened to defund the Brooklyn Museum for showing his absolutely gorgeous The Holy Virgin Mary — a 1996 painting of a black Madonna with a bared breast made from dried elephant dung, surrounding by putti made from female genitalia cut from porn magazines — as part of the 1999 stateside leg of Saatchi Gallery's «Sensation» show.
In 1989, her work Oozewald was sold for $ 6.6 million, making it the highest priced artwork ever sold by a living female artist.
In doing so, she has made history by being the first black female artist to ever win this coveted
In conjunction with the exhibition, Main Line Art Center is proud to present the lecture «Happily Ever After and the Female Gaze: Philadelphia Women Artist Trailblazers — Then and Now» led by Cindy Veloric, MA, research assistant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Artistic Advisor at Main Line Art Center, and independent art historian.
In doing so, she has made history by being the first black female artist to ever win this coveted prize as well as being the eldest, since Tate removed the age limit this year.
I'm doing my part by reviewing some of the best female artists of today (including one of the most jaw - dropping shows I've ever seen — the up - right - now Laurel Nakadate show at Tonkonow Projects).