Niki de Saint Phalle (Neuilly-sur-Seine 1930 - San Diego 2002), was born Catherine Marie-Agnès Fal de Saint Phalle in France but soon moved to New York, where she began a career as a model, appearing on the covers of Vogue and Life, and became an actress. In the early 1950s (married with a child) she suffered from [...]
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Bonhams' New Bond Street office held its Contemporary Art Auction on 27 April 2021. Among the 29 lots, the one with the highest estimate was Albert Oehlen's "Untitled (Baum 18)" at £380,000-£580,000, eventually selling for £610,750. The catalogue also includes the neon work "Wash N' Set (Yellow)" signed Tschabalala Self [...]
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From New York to Florence: the week's auction results 50 masterpieces of photography were auctioned at Sotheby's to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the auction house's photography auctions. Between the London and New York venues, masterpieces spanning the history between the two centuries were presented, including exceptional and rare works such as the [...]
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Sotheby's London On 13 April 2021 at 2pm, Sotheby's "Contemporary Curated" online auction closed, curated by Russell Tovey, a British actor who has become a collector over the years. The sale brought together established artists and lesser-known names, Damien Hirst, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Shirazeh Houshiary, Jon Rafman and Katharina Fritsch, to name but a few. The auction record goes, [...]
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Sotheby's London Sotheby's London presented the Modern and Contemporary African Art auction from 24 to 31 March, comprising masterpieces by some of the most sought-after artists of 20th and 21st century African art. With this auction, collectors had the opportunity to indulge themselves by buying very particular and different objects, with an accessible and above all [...].
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Palma Bucarelli (Rome, 16 March 1910 - Rome, 25 July 1998) was a critic and art historian, a well-known Italian museologist, and one of the most important museum directors. Bucarelli is a figure of enormous importance: in an era and in a rather male-dominated panorama she managed to make her way and operate with great innovation and independence, promoting [...]
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Rosalind Krauss (Washington 30 November 1941) is an American art critic and academic, professor of art history at Columbia University in New York. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Krauss began contributing articles to art magazines such as Art International and Artforum. He distinguished himself early on for his commitment to minimal art [...]
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Anna Banti, born Lucia Lopresti (27 June 1895, Florence, 2 September 1985, Marina dei Ronchi, Massa), was the free spirit who stole the heart of her art history professor, Roberto Longhi. She became financially independent thanks to her writing and decided to devote herself completely to it with the stage name Anna Banti, "my real name, the one that was not given to me by my family nor by the [...]
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Lea Buoncristiano (Naples, 5 March 1936 - Milan, 20 October 2020). Her harsh and rigorous character enabled her to make her way in the art world of the 1960s, which was still profoundly male-dominated at the time. She was especially involved in the avant-garde of programmed and kinetic art and, alongside the master Giulio Carlo Argan, in 1964 she designed the magazine "Linea [...]
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Phillips Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon auction opened on 15 March and closed on 23 March. The proceeds from all the lots in the auction were donated to charity for the implementation of a number of educational projects promoted by the Whitechapel Gallery. These engage each year in the development and creation of pioneering activities, [...]