Warhol’s Portrait of Basquiat Tops Christie’s Sale Achieving $40,091,500
Andy Warhol’s 1982 portrait of his friend, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat from the collection of Peter Brant, achieved $40,091,500 at Christie’s
12 November 2021
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Lucian Freud Portrait Of David Hockney Sells For £14.9m $20.7m At Sotheby’s
A portrait by the English figurative painter Lucian Freud depicting his friend David Hockney has sold for £14.9 million ($20.7 million) with buyer’s premium at London’s Sotheby’s.
29 June 2021
Warhol Foundation Loses Lynn Goldsmith Prince Appropriation Appeal
A Court of Appeals in New York has ruled that Andy Warhol did not make ‘fair use’ of the original Lynn Goldsmith 1981 photograph
26 March 2021
Tacita Dean: Portrait
This major new exhibition will focus on Tacita Dean’s portraiture primarily through the medium of 16mm film. The exhibition will be the first in the Gallery’s history to be devoted to the medium of film, and also reveals Tacita Dean’s own longstanding and personal interest in portraiture as a genre
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Important Picasso Muse Dora Maar Portrait To Be Sold At Christie’s
Femme assise, robe bleue by Pablo Picasso will go under the hammer at Christie’s NY as a highlight of its Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale (Estimate: $35,000,000-50,000,000).
31 March 2017
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize Won By Claudio Rasano
Claudio Rasano has won the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016. His portrait of a Johannesburg schoolboy, on exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, has taken the prestigious £15,000 award.
17 November 2016
Public Appeal Launched To Acquire Final Duke of Wellington Portrait
A public appeal to acquire Sir Thomas Lawrence’s unfinished final portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, has been announced today, Thursday 3 November 2016.
4 November 2016
Cat Paintings: The Mysterious Chat Noir Litters Art History
The mysterious chat noir litters (a pun already? Awesome) art history like so much shed fur; the terribly unsubtle feline companion… Read More
23 May 2015
Amy Winehouse Anniversary Portrait Unveiled At Camden Tube
It is one year on from the tragic death of Amy Winehouse. To celebrate her life, Art Below have created… Read More
28 June 2012