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Earliest Known Work by Top International Female Artist, Marlene Dumas, to Sell at Bonhams
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Irma Sterns Zanzibar Image of Indian Beauty to Sell at Bonhams
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The Ashmolean Announces Its First Major Exhibition: The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
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Atlas Gallery Explores Synergies between Words and Images in Ground-Breaking Exhibition
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Six-Part Series by Andreas Gursky at Sprüth Magers in Berlin
BERLIN.- Monika Sprüth and Philomene
Magers
present an exhibition of new works by Andreas Gursky in Berlin. The
series of
works represents an important new development in Gursky’s practice in
which the
artist reassesses the way he works with photography. Like many of
Andreas
Gursky’s works, the new, six-part series Ocean I-VI (2009-2010) goes
back to a
spontaneous visual experience. As the artist relates, while
flying one
night from Dubai to Melbourne he stared for some time at the flight
monitor: the
Horn of Africa to the far left, a tip of Australia to the far right –
and there
in between the blue void. Then all of a sudden he saw the graphic
representation
on the monitor as a picture.