Sentences with phrase «wealthy collectors from»

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.

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

Not exact matches

CEPH's involvement in gene mapping goes back to 1980 when Jean Dausset, a Nobel prizewinning immunologist and geneticist, set up the institute with a 50 million franc bequest from a wealthy art collector.

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.

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.

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.

A career during which he has received sustained support from both wealthy private collectors and from great museums worldwide.

While not independently wealthy (as is the case with some dealers even now), Bellamy had no immediate financial pressures or incentives: the gallery was backed by the collector Robert Scull, who conveniently purchased work from shows for his own private collection.

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.

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.

It is believed that more than half the money was raised from wealthy collectors who themselves owned works by Ofili.

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.

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.

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.

Opened in 1951 by the niece of Solomon R Guggenheim, the wealthy American industrialist and art collector, the museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of twentieth - century art, masterpieces from the Gianni Mattioli collection, the Nasher Sculpture Garden, as well as temporary exhibitions.

Wealthy local buyers have emerged, as have collectors from China and India, suddenly curious about artists from their respective diasporas, who together make up a large proportion of Malaysia's population.

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.

Indeed, despite the financial support of Parisian art dealers like Paul Durand - Ruel (1831 - 1922) and Ambroise Vollard (1866 - 1939), it wasn't until the arrival of wealthy art collectors from America and Russia - such as Albert Barnes (1872 - 1951) and Ivan Morozov (1871 - 1921)- that Impressionist artists began to sell thir paintings for significant sums.

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.

Before I went to Rachel Whiteread's latest exhibition at Gagosian gallery, I read an unkind review in one of the London free newspapers charging her with lacking originality and obeying just another ploy from Larry Gagosian to satisfy his wealthy art collectors.