This year, the art market saw a return to form, with sellers regaining confidence in consigning good works. We survey the top five results in key markets Impressionist & Modern Vincent van Gogh, Laboureur dans un champ (1889), $81.3m (£62.1m), Christie’s New York, 13 November Fernand Léger, Contraste de forms (1913), $70m (£53.5m), Christie’s New […]
Warhol portrait of Elvis from 1963 to feature in Contemporary art evening sale
NEW YORK, NY.- On 9 May 2012 Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale will include Double Elvis [Ferus Type] by Andy Warhol, a painting that epitomizes the artist’s obsessions with fame, stardom, and the public image. The 1963 work is a semina…
Exhibition at the Lowry Focuses on the Most Alluring Divas of Andy Warhol’s Time
MANCHESTER.- This newly curated exhibition by The Lowry presents an unprecedented collection of some of Andy Warhol’s most iconic works, focusing on the most alluring Divas of his time. As well as presenting the stars he admired, the exhibition w…
Exhibition at the Lowry Focuses on the Most Alluring Divas of Andy Warhol’s Time
MANCHESTER.- This newly curated exhibition by The Lowry presents an unprecedented collection of some of Andy Warhol’s most iconic works, focusing on the most alluring Divas of his time. As well as presenting the stars he admired, the exhibition w…
New York Academy of Art’s 5th Annual Summer Exhibition at Flowers Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Flowers is hosting the New York Academy of Art‘s 5th Annual Summer Exhibition. The show will remain on view through August 6th 2011. This highly anticipated group show brings together a wide range of new work by more than 50 establi…
Leading Art Dealer Robert Miller, Founder of Robert Miller Gallery, Dies at 72
NEW YORK, NY.- Robert Miller Gallery regretfully announces the death on Wednesday, June 22, 2011, of its founder Robert Miller (1939-2011). Miller, one of the world’s leading art dealers of the 1980s and 90s, died in Miami, FL. He was 72. In his t…
Andy Warhol’s Portrait of Debbie Harry, A Highlight of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Sale
LONDON.- Selected as the cover image for the major survey of Warhol’s portraiture published by Phaidon in 2005, Debbie Harry, from 1980, is one of Warhol’s most accomplished portraits of celebrity. One of only four such portraits of the Blondie star in…
Multi-Sensory Exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts Features 220 Works by Warhol
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work, the first exhibition to delve deeply into the roles music and dance played in the artist’s life and work, opens at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on June 24 in the In…
Multi-Sensory Exhibition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts Features 220 Works by Andy Warhol
NASHVILLE, TENN.- Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work, the first exhibition to delve deeply into the roles music and dance played in the artist’s life and work, opens at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on June 24 in the In…
Salvador Dali and Contemporary Surrealism on View at the Kunsthalle Vienna
Vienna.- The Kunsthalle Vienna is proud to present “Le Surréalisme, c’est moi!” from June 22nd through October 23rd. “Le Surréalisme, c’est moi!” continues the Kunsthalle Vienna’s series of exhibitions which presents the work of major artist…