Tanner's considerable talent earned him critical acclaim and attracted
wealthy collectors like American department store mogul Rodman Wannamaker, who was so impressed with the artist's work, he paid for Tanner's trip to North Africa and the Middle East.
Not exact matches
After a disastrous concert given by Adrian, she takes a
liking to him, convincing Porter (Zak Orth), a
wealthy collector, to fund an original work by him.
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.
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.
Hirst himself is an extremely
wealthy art
collector — he owns work by Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, Sarah Lucas, and many others — which is perhaps why extremely
wealthy art
collectors liked the show much more than critics.
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.
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.