Sentences with phrase «wealthy collectors who»

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.

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

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.

Ironically it was and wealthy collectors who sought these images for their collections.

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.

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That's especially impressive because while Bugatti has yet to announce a price, wealthy car collectors who have attended special preview events for the car tell CNBC that the sticker price for the Chiron will be $ 2.4 million.

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.

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

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.

There are some galleries who do all the work still because they are good at finding collectors and reside near wealthy communities.

In London, Bacon worked various odd jobs and dated wealthy men, including art connoisseurs and collectors who piqued his interest in the fine arts.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

And the third factor was a support of art critics (Clement Greenberg), wealthy patrons and collectors (Peggy Guggenheim, Leo Castelli), who supplied artists with finances and positive reviews, and very promptly made this new art movement fashionable and trendy.

Lastly, one should not underestimate the role of art critics as well as wealthy patrons and collectors - notably Peggy Guggenheim (1898 - 1979), and Leo Castelli (1907 - 99)- who were active agents for the new movement.

Another key person was Peggy Guggenheim, a wealthy art collector who was to become one of Pollock's early supporters and promoters of his work.