Sentences with phrase «by wealthy collectors»

Sean Kelly Gallery sold more than $ 1 million of sculptures by British artist Antony Gormley in less than three hours on March 3, as a week of art fairs in New York opened with a flurry of purchases by wealthy collectors.

High prices for famous 20th - century artworks driven by wealthy collectors from the US, Russia and the Middle East

PARIS — A court here on Wednesday issued a ruling that permits the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to display art as it sees fit in the Venetian palazzo given to it by the wealthy collector Peggy Guggenheim.

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It is possible, particularly if you and your heirs are very, very independently wealthy and can afford to buy lawyers, judges and congress members by the dozen to beat the tax collector out his many pounds of dead decaying flesh, but it ain't easy.

After a disastrous concert given by Adrian, she takes a liking to him, convincing Porter (Zak Orth), a wealthy collector, to fund an original work by him.

Because The Massive Costs For Both The 6.3 Engine And The Extensive Body Enhancements At Time Of Build, Only The Very Wealthy Could Justify The Revised Aston Martin Ticket Prices, With Many Of The Total 22 Cars Bought By Famous Or Royal Clients, With This Examples First Keeper Being A World Renowned Car Collector / Foreign Royal Family Member.

The protagonist is a counter — Indiana Jones: Instead of artifacts «belonging in a museum,» Lane Bradley believes that precious relics held by museums in war - torn areas would be safer in the hands of wealthy private collectors in established, peaceful countries.

Do you mean if you want to be taken seriously by the famous critics and wealthy collectors, or do you mean if you want to make a living as an artist?

These are bought by wealthy fine art collectors and abroad.

Lot 45, «Portrait of Nelson A. Rockefeller # 3,» is one panel of a four - section work by Andy Warhol depicting the former Governor of New York and scion of one of the country's wealthiest families and one of the nation's foremost art collectors.

A protégé of one wealthy collector and patron, Peggy Guggenheim, Jackson Pollock, or «Jack the Dripper» as Time magazine called him in 1956, had a rather artistic career that was interrupted by his untimely death in a car accident at the age of 44, although his legacy and impact can only be described as everlasting.

The Stedelijk Museum was established in 1874 by a group of art collectors and wealthy individuals led by C.P. van Eeghen, who donated funds as well as their art collections to inaugurate a museum in Amsterdam, dedicated to modern art.

The fame that he pursued relentlessly and recklessly throughout his brief career seems secure, buoyed by museum retrospectives, films, books, sympathetic critics and a bounty of supremely wealthy collectors, who now buy major works by him for $ 20 million or more.

Hirst himself is an extremely wealthy art collector — he owns work by Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Sarah Lucas, and many others — which is perhaps why extremely wealthy art collectors liked the show much more than critics.

While not independently wealthy (as is the case with some dealers even now), Bellamy had no immediate financial pressures or incentives: the gallery was backed by the collector Robert Scull, who conveniently purchased work from shows for his own private collection.

Wealthy collectors focused on masterpieces by blue - chip artists.

It is believed that more than half the money was raised from wealthy collectors who themselves owned works by Ofili.

Museums say they have the best and most important art, but most really represent the taste of the wealthiest art collectors in the world, who are advised by a cartel of multinational art galleries.

Opened in 1951 by the niece of Solomon R Guggenheim, the wealthy American industrialist and art collector, the museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of twentieth - century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.

Ossorio was a wealthy artist and collector in his own right, and The Creeks was a New York art - world hotspot in the 1950s and»60s, frequented by influential figures such as Clement Greenberg, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Marcel Duchamp, Barnett Newman, Harold Rosenberg, Elaine and Willem de Kooning, and Mark Rothko, to name just a few.

Wealthy collectors snapped up a everything from a $ 10,000 painting by emerging Chinese artist Yuan Yuan to an 800,000 pounds ($ 1.3 million) for a scalpel blade painting by Damien Hirst.

On Wednesday, wealthy collectors grabbed paintings and sculptures by blue - chip and emerging artists at the start of the 14th edition of the largest art fair in the U.S..

Contemporary Art in the USSR and Russia.1950 - 2000» to the Pompidou Centre by Vladimir Potanin one of the wealthiest Russian businessman backed by 20 other collectors and 19 artists amply fulfils its aim to deepen knowledge of Russian art by the French and international audience but it should be the first step towards more ambitious goals.

The woman at the well, the tax collector, the adulterous woman and the condemning Pharisees: servants and leaders, the poor and the wealthy, all had encounters with Jesus and were transformed by His grace.