Sentences with phrase «of wealthy collectors»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Wealthy car collectors will converge on Pebble Beach, California, this week for the scenic community's annual auction of collectible cars.

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.

Within this legendary story hides more than 5,000 others — the story of the skinny orphan, the skeptical tax collector, the despised Samaritan, the curious fisherman, the struggling widow, the disdained prostitute, the wealthy mother, the angry zealot, the ostracized Canaanite, the banished leper, the suffering slave, the repentant sinner... and ultimately, the story of you and me.

And so when he sat down to eat with tax - collectors, prostitutes, and other non-belongers, and with Pharisees and wealthy too, he clearly signaled God's unconditional acceptance of them all.

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.

Upon learning of his daughter's disappearance, Elena's wealthy father (Christopher McDonald) hires a group of mercenaries to retrieve her from the vicious grips of The Collector.

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.

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.

In the course of her investigations, Maisie meets the bohemian Bassington - Hope family, Nick's fellow artists from the colony at Dungeness, his promoter, gallery owner Stig Svenson, and the collector who is determined to own all of his work, wealthy American Randolph Bradley.

Incidentally, the limited - run, cream - colored cover became a rare prize for collectors, and sales of the black - colored cover alone made Clarke a wealthy woman.

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.

William Randolph Hearst was one of the many wealthy American collectors in the 19th and early 20th centuries who built and decorated sumptuous homes.

Many wealthy, aspiring collectors employ art advisers (Marshall's mother, Patricia, is one of the most powerful in the world), not only for recommendations about what to buy, but because those advisers have access to work that would be unavailable to art - world outsiders.

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

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.

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.

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.»

It's the art collection of the imaginary Dr. Carl Theodor Gottlob Grouwet both wealthy paper manufacturer and passionate art collector.

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.

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.

The prominence of Chinese artists at the upcoming sale reflects London's position as a growing global hub for Chinese contemporary art, as European collectors continue to gain interest and wealthy Chinese buyers travel abroad in ever - increasing numbers.

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.

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 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.

In their small but wealthy community, they had cultivated a dedicated group of collectors.

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.

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.

But Frieze saw that contemporary art was Maastricht's weakest link, and that dealers in historical art there might benefit more from the interest of wealthy contemporary art collectors if they were to club together in London during Frieze week.

Shniberg, whose background is in data - mining tech startups, secured backing from investors such as Thomas Schimdheiny, the fourth - wealthiest man in Switzerland, Sir Harry Djanogoly, a prominent British philanthropist and art collector, and Raymond McGuire, the head of Global Banking at Citibank, investing on his own behalf.

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.

When the first one is soon to be facing restrictions to free movement of people and goods and is always pushing further away its artists from London (insane cost of living for anyone starting an artist career in the city with no wealthy parents or trust found to back up their ambitions), the second one seems to be growing always stronger with its impressive amount of art collectors, and a cost of living relatively affordable for anyone seeking an art studio in the capital.

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.

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.

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.

Benefiting from the presence of European expatriates like Arshile Gorky (1905 - 48) and Hans Hofmann (1880 - 1966), and the support of critics (Greenberg) and wealthy art collectors and dealers - most notably Peggy Guggenheim, and Leo Castelli - the movement had two wings.

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.