Primarily documentary in nature, the exhibition presents photographs, correspondence, contracts, price lists, reproductions of
sold key paintings plus original works on paper and graphics by Pollock.
Not exact matches
Etienne was involved in
key consignments including an Alexander Calder mobile from the Agnès Varda Collection,
sold for US$ 2,592,126, and a large - scale
painting by Jean Paul Riopelle, La Promenade, which, at US$ 1,241,165, established a record for a 1960's work by the artist.
The exhibition brings together
key works by Rembrandt which remain in British collections, including Belshazzar's Feast (c. 1635) from the National Gallery London, and Girl at a Window (1645) from Dulwich Picture Gallery, as well as star
paintings now overseas, such as The Mill (1645/8) from the National Gallery in Washington, which left Britain when it was
sold to a US collector for the staggering sum of # 100,000 in 1911.
Parsons serves as a
key example of a woman who shaped the canon through her persistent support of underrepresented artists, all while maintaining a rigorous studio practice, and while her nearly six decades of luminous
paintings were exhibited and
sold throughout her lifetime, they were timidly recognized by the art world.