Daughter of the creator of the Sales Office at the Venice Biennale (Milan 1945 - 2010), she became co-owner of her father's art gallery. With a preference for the recovery of art between the wars, she is in fact a reference figure for the valorisation of 20th century Italian art and her collection, most of which is on display at Villa Necchi Campiglio (Milan), [...].
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A noblewoman and great art collector (Milan January 1881 - London June 1957), Luisa Casati was the daughter of a wealthy cotton manufacturer and a Milanese woman, which is why she spent most of her life in Milan among privilege and comfort. In 1900 she married the Milanese marquis Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino, from whom she [...]
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Born on 3 February 1874 (Allegheny, February 1874 - Neuilly-dur-Seine July 1946) in a Pennsylvania suburb to a German family of Jewish origin, she had three brothers and a sister. In 1893, after living a few years in Vienna and Paris with his family, he moved with his brother Leo to Cambridge in Massachusetts where he began his university studies [...].
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Peggy Guggenheim (New York, August 1898 Camposampiero, December 1979) is actually the nickname of Marguerite Guggenheim who grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, philanthropists and art collectors. It was her grandfather, Solomon Robert Guggenheim, who created the Guggenheim Foundation, which today is famous and renowned throughout the world, while her father, who died in the sinking of the Titanic, left her a legacy of [...].
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Christie's New York has offered an online Andy Warhol auction entitled Machine Made from 19-27 May 2021. This is a completely innovative auction in that it features five unique NFTs of digital works created by Andy Warhol in the mid-1980s, which were recovered in 2014 from some floppy disks now [...]
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Sotheby's New York held its Contemporary Art Day Auction on 13 May 20201, including works from the post-war period to the present day. The large number of lots came from the Collection of Morris and Rita Pynoos and the Collection of Mrs John L Marion, including artists such as Alexander Calder, Joan Mitchell, Keith Haring, Harold Ancart, David Hockney, [...].
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The Linz branch of Dorotheum held its "Spring Auction" on 4 May 2021 with no less than 466 lots. Featuring a wide variety of artists, the auction included paintings, carpets, books and various design objects; among them, the highest estimated lot was number 103, signed Fritz Aigner, which started from a [...]
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The French sculptor Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She began her artistic career at a very young age, making her first drawings for her parents, who were well-known tapestry weavers. After studying mathematics at the Sorbonne for a few years, she gave up her studies to devote herself entirely to art at the Hercules des Beaux Arts, the Académie de [...].
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Bridget Riley was born in London (1931) where she studied art at Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art. She later took on a number of jobs, becoming an art teacher and illustrator for Walter Thompson's advertising agency. Her early artistic productions have mainly an impressionist and pointillist matrix, but in the 1960s she was attracted to the optical effects that [...]
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Maria Lai was born in 1919 in Ulassai in Sardinia and grew up with an innate artistic spirit. It was while posing for Francesco Cuisa, commissioned to paint a portrait for her dead sister, that she met the world of art, from which she would never detach herself. Salvatore Cambosu, her teacher at Cagliari secondary school, discovered her sensitivity [...]