Continuing the theme of Andy Warhol and Pop Art, from Tate Modern to Sotheby’s, and then to Christie’s for the last visit for a while due to the current public health crisis, where their auction of Prints & Multiples also has strong representation by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Bacon, Frank Stella, Jeff Koons, Pablo […]
Now we know why there was only a relatively small selection of his Pop works on show at the Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern – this week there were extensive selections on show of Warhol’s Pop prints at Sotheby’s and Christie’s where both had sales of Prints and Multiples, which I guess may be […]
It starts with a self-portrait from 1964 when Andy Warhol was in his mid-30′s and ends with another self-portrait from 1986, a year before his death at the relatively young age of 58, but how many artists achieved so much in this relatively short lifetime that still sets the 21st century world alight. Normally the […]
One of the joys of visiting art exhibitions, whether at galleries or at auction houses, is finding something new. You think that there have been so many exhibitions of Andy Warhol that there is nothing new to see, yet at Christie’s this week, one of the highlights is a series of portraits, the ‘Athletes’ which […]
So, you have commissioned a well-known artist like Pablo Picasso or Andy Warhol to do your portrait. A bold decision – are you sure that you will like the result? Lady Churchill famously destroyed a portrait of her husband by Graham Sutherland because she couldn’t stand it. In this era of selfies and digital cameras, […]
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Munich art firm Editions Schellman, Fifty Are Better Than One displays four floors of art editions from Schellman’s archives at Phillips in London, to be auctioned to benefit the Ars Publicata project, with connections between the art inside and the exterior environment of Berkeley Square and the surrounding Mayfair streets. […]
Personally, I think the Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair overdoes its Warhol collection. I know it has to make money to survive, but it is much more interesting when it shows work by a contemporary modern artist, as it did with Pedro Paricio over the summer, who took the centre stage in the gallery space, though […]
Many congratulations to the Contemporary Art Centre in Malaga which celebrated its 15th birthday in February this year. Established by the city authorities in the former Wholesalers Market constructed in 1939 by the architect Luis Gutiérrez Soto, the Contemporary Art Centre Malaga has been part of a successful strategy to bring new art galleries and […]
It’s a dull dark January night in Mayfair, but the lights shine brightly in Phillips in Berkeley Square with three floors of limited edition works by a huge variety of modern and contemporary artists from North America, Japan, Britain and Europe including Jan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Roy […]
Shoppers walking out through the North End entrance to the Whitgift Centre in Croydon probably think that the artwork above their head is just an advert for Chanel perfume, a very appropriate view as the artist which it commemorates started out in the advertising industry. Simon Freeborough’s work “Pure Transparency” has a double meaning as […]
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(Thomas Moore)
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