Sentences with phrase «wealthy collectors in»

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.»

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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.

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 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.

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.

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

A regular stop for the art crowd for the past five years, Greece offers a welcome break for the wealthy between Basel and the London auctions, the two biggest spring events in Europe for collectors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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..

«The time - crunched new wealthy collectors aren't going to spend weekends going to every gallery in town.

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.

Contemporary Art in the USSR and Russia.1950 - 2000» to the Pompidou Centre by Vladimir Potanin one of the wealthiest Russian businessman backed by 20 other collectors and 19 artists amply fulfils its aim to deepen knowledge of Russian art by the French and international audience but it should be the first step towards more ambitious goals.

China's wealthy real estate investors also valued space to display their massive art collections, while U.S. buyers were mostly interested in having a multi-car collector's garage, according to the report.