Sentences with phrase «many wealthy collectors»

Fine wine is now the best - performing collectible of the world's wealthy collectors, with values soaring 25 % over the past 12 months, according to a new report.

They are found today among the Chinese national treasures and in museums and the homes of wealthy collectors.

Verdon draws upon the resources of the Diocesan Museum of Prato, a Tuscan city with a booming textile industry and many wealthy collectors who have lent their pieces to the museum.

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.

What's more, if you're a wealthy collector you can still take your chance to buy it and put it into storage as part of your retirement fund.

*** Can we attract wealthy collectors to buy online and not need a gallery to where they can see even 3 - dimensional art?

In the same way, I know a bunch of wealthy collectors now.

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?

Dia's incredible vision belongs to a former Soho dealer and a wealthy collector, and it leans heavily to the heavy.

Think of several strategies for a wealthy collector — or maybe temptations.

The sales at Christie's, Sotheby's and Phillips suggested the world's wealthiest collectors were eager enough to spend money in London.

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

And if the wealthy collectors don't have the time to hop on a plane to London or Hong Kong to pick up El Anatsui «s new wall sculpture, or a coveted Anish Kapoor reflective concave disk, then their art advisors will make the trip on their behalf.

Any lingering concerns about the change in the fair's dates — moved up from May to March, and starting on Friday instead of Wednesday — were addressed during the brief, three - hour V.I.P. preview on the first day, with what many veteran attendees said were larger - than - usual crowds of wealthy collectors and delegations from major art institutions around the world.

It makes sense for Higgs, who once championed the Young British Artists in all their piss and elephant dung, before deriding those who blindly follow wealthy collectors, hoarders, and art advisors and before coming to America as director of White Columns.

After all, wealthy collectors, comfortable with formal abstraction, may not want to buy it.

For galleries with ambitions to be destinations for the world's wealthiest collectors working one's way up for Art Basel's outlier fairs and getting into the inner sanctum of Basel itself is a long journey.

Ironically it was and wealthy collectors who sought these images for their collections.

Here, the material divide between the everyday image on the computer screen and the deliberately ostentatious product (destined, one imagines, for the wealthy collector) ends up reinforcing a social divide Arcangel elsewhere subverts.

Hunting scenes were popular with wealthy collectors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Not a bad recipe for success, just as for the Young British Artists or for Jeff Koons in curating another wealthy collector's cavemen and car wrecks.

These uptown programmes are like an umbilical chord that link older, wealthy collectors who would never venture south of 14th Street in anything but an armoured SUV to the burgeoning art scene around the New Museum on the Bowery.

None of this takes a wealthy collector or the hoarders elsewhere in «The Keeper.»

There is a tale, perhaps apocryphal, of a posse of wealthy collectors turning up, only to find that as they waited the artist had sneaked up behind them and urinated down the backs of their coats.

They miss the chance to explore the growth of the art world and the dominance of wealthy collectors.

Their access to institutions around the world, as well as a global base of the world's wealthiest collectors, has helped further propel these women to prominence and send their prices skyward.

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.

Tanner's considerable talent earned him critical acclaim and attracted wealthy collectors like American department store mogul Rodman Wannamaker, who was so impressed with the artist's work, he paid for Tanner's trip to North Africa and the Middle East.

Another show of a living artist, Hernan Bas, did not reach beyond a wealthy collector, «Sensation» displayed the Saatchi collection, and the title for another contemporary artist,» © Murakami,» all but boasted of commerce.

The goal was to generate more domestic interest in the artists of Asia among the newly wealthy collectors of China.

Wealthy collectors are «ready to finance this art, and they're ready to show it to the masses, not just enjoy it for themselves,» said Natalia Alexandrova, head of the postwar painting department at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

A high - performing art dealer, Brown sells art that reliably increases in value, regardless of the general economic conditions, as a hedge to diversify the portfolios of his unimaginably wealthy collectors.

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.

The scene then switches to the more fashion - conscious Nikki Two, lounging in a Venetian water taxi on her way to stay with wealthy collectors and visit the Venice Film Festival.

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.

In a speech delivered at Burlington House last night, the critic Robert Hughescalls for a revitalised Royal Academy to defend art against the degrading power of the wealthy collectors

The Americans are coming partly because wealthy collectors from Russia, India or the Middle East prefer to be in London, rather than in New York; so inevitably, some of that wealth will be diverted.

His works, which were popular with collectors during his lifetime, also soared at auction before the recession, thanks to fresh attention from wealthy collectors in Russia and the Middle East.

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.

Damien Hirst, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol works sold for more than # 1.8 million each as wealthy collectors got first dibs at the opening of the Frieze Art Fair in London.

The building also sits near highly regarded dealerships such as David Zwirner and Sadie Coles, and near the five - star Connaught and Claridge's hotels, where many of the world's wealthiest collectors stay during sale weeks.

Whether wealthy collectors should be curating vanity exhibitions from their private collections for publicly funded museums (thereby increasing the value of the work) is a controversial question, but there's plenty of good work on view — Leonardo Drew's cotton and wax sculpture Untitled # 25, several of Nick Cave's Soundsuits, and a large - scale Kara Walker silhouette are all included.

In particular, he championed the abstract expressionism of the New York School and, along with the wealthy collector Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979), was one of the first to promote the work of Jackson Pollock (1912 - 56).

One of the wealthiest collectors in Britain has secured a partnership with a contemporary art auction house, so that admission to his huge new gallery in Chelsea will be free.

Displayed in the homes of wealthy collectors, the pictures of cowboys that once advertised Marlboro cigarettes had now become high - end advertisements for a new brand - name in the cultural marketplace: Richard Prince.

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.

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.

The Salames, Beirut - based fashion retailers, are among wealthy collectors who snapped up gargantuan paintings, sculptures, and other showstopping installations at the art fair's Unlimited section, which is dedicated to large - scale pieces that in the past often didn't find buyers.

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..