«The time - crunched
new wealthy collectors aren't going to spend weekends going to every gallery in town.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
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.
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.
The world's leading galleries, in many ways the backbone of fairs like Art Basel, are seeking to connect with
wealthy new collectors in novel ways and hoping to offer more international exposure to high - demand artists.
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.
Also during the 1930s he created an entire series of cityscapes and landscapes, using a variety of media including oils and frottage.In 1938, the
wealthy art
collector, Peggy Guggenheim bought several of Ernst's paintings, which she displayed in her
new museum in London.
In turn, this led to: more demand for urban architecture; more demand for applied art and design - see, for instance the Bauhaus School - and the emergence of a
new class of
wealthy entrepreneurs who became art
collectors and patrons.
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.
And the third factor was a support of art critics (Clement Greenberg),
wealthy patrons and
collectors (Peggy Guggenheim, Leo Castelli), who supplied artists with finances and positive reviews, and very promptly made this
new art movement fashionable and trendy.
Lastly, one should not underestimate the role of art critics as well as
wealthy patrons and
collectors - notably Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979), and Leo Castelli (1907 - 99)- who were active agents for the
new movement.
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.