Sentences with phrase «important pieces of modern art»

This painting references important pieces of modern art to reconsider how perspective influences history.

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This immersive exhibition at Tate Modern celebrates Joan Jonas's outstanding contribution to art over the last five decades, uniting some of the most important pieces from throughout her career.

Elizabeth Price will give the inaugural artist talk in the Contemporary Art Society's new home at 59 Central Street in London on 17 January, when she will discuss her work, including the Contemporary Art Society's recent acquisition of her important piece USER GROUP DISCO (2009) for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh.

Ne Plus Ultra relates to Swenson's important earlier pieces that also feature the deer figure, including Untitled from 2000 with a young deer balancing on one hoof with a black and red drapery billowing above its head (in the permanent collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth) and Untitled, 2001, with an adolescent deer rubbing the velvet off of its newly developed horns on an antique rug (exhibited in the Whitney Biennial in 2004).

The museum is home to an important collection of modern British art, featuring key pieces by Lucien Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Alfred Wallis and LS Lowry.

In addition to important pieces of Asian, African, Oceanic and Native American art, already areas of depth in SAM's holdings, the gifts encompass modern and contemporary artworks that any museum in America would covet, such as Richard Serra's colossal five - part «Wake» (2004), a 1926 bronze «Bird in Space» by Constantin Brancusi, Jasper Johns» «Thermometer» (1959) and John Singleton Copley's 1770s portrait of «Sylvester Gardiner.»

It holds some of the most important pieces of Spanish and international modern and contemporary art such as Picasso's Guernica and Woman in Blue, Miró «s enigmatic Portrait I, Dali «s Landscapes at Cadaqués, Solana's The Gathering at the Café del Pombo, Bacon «s Reclining Figure, and a serene sculpture by Henry Moore.

These include early Arts and Crafts pieces, such as a rare sideboard by C.F.A. Voysey (Estimate # 20,000 - 30,000), to an important «Aux Nénuphars» occasional table by the master of Art Nouveau, Louis Majorelle (Estimate # 45,000 - 55,000) and the sleek modern lines of a leather -LSB-...]

Assemblage art hasn't lost any steam over the years and Los Angeles Modern Auctions is thrilled to include a group of pieces by four important American artists who produced work in the assemblage idiom: Joseph Cornell, Betye Saar, Chris Ferebee, and Louise Nevelson in the February 25, 2018 Modern Art & Design Auctiart hasn't lost any steam over the years and Los Angeles Modern Auctions is thrilled to include a group of pieces by four important American artists who produced work in the assemblage idiom: Joseph Cornell, Betye Saar, Chris Ferebee, and Louise Nevelson in the February 25, 2018 Modern Art & Design AuctiArt & Design Auction.

Beginning with Solomon R. Guggenheim's founding collection of abstract art, the museum's holdings have been augmented and strengthened over the years by Karl Nierendorf's important German and Austrian Expressionist works, Justin K. Thannhauser's Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and other modern pieces, Hilla Rebay's personal collection of 20th century works, and Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, Environmental, and Conceptual art.

But the important pieces in «Gilbert & George: The Early Years,» now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, create a very different impression.