Sotheby's has seen a notably intensified focus on the emergence of female power players in the art market in 2014. There was a surge in appreciation for and reappraisal of works by female artists. Landmark prices were achieved for works by female masters through the...
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Jane Bown British Portrait Photographer Dies Aged Eighty Nine
The British portrait photographer Jane Bown, known for her images of famous people including the Beatles and Francis Bacon and Samuel Beckett, has died aged 89. Working for the Observer newspaper from 1949 she produced iconic imagery for more than half a century. Many...
William Blake: Apprentice And Master – Ashmolean Museum – Innovation Over Vision
The Ashmolean Museum presents 'William Blake: Apprentice and Master' - a major exhibition focusing on the extraordinary life and work of Blake (1757–1827), printmaker, painter and revolutionary poet of prophetic books. The show sheds light on Blake's evolution...
Student’s Degree Show Caused The Fire That Destroyed Glasgow School Of Art’s Building
For many an art student, the creation of their degree show is not only a defining moment in what could be an exiting future career - but also for many, involves the use of interesting and exotic materials - whether in homage to the likes of Joseph Beuys in the use of...
Georgia O’Keeffe $44.4m Painting Sets New Record Price For A Female Artist At Sotheby’s
The $15 million or £9.5 million estimate for Georgia O'Keeffe's work was shattered after a rather intense bidding war between two rivals. 'Jimson Weed/White Flower No 1', a 1932 painting of a simple white flower, was finally bought after the flurry by an unnamed...
Modernist Sculptor Jacob Epstein’s Bloomsbury Family Life Explored In New Exhibition
A new exhibition reveals how babies and children inspired modernist sculptor Jacob Epstein, and explores his unconventional family life in Bloomsbury. Sir Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), pioneer of modernism and distinguished portrait sculptor, made many portraits of...
Damien Hirst Unveils New Series Of Black Scalpel Cityscape Paintings
Damien Hirst has unveiled his new series of paintings in Brazil, following his universally panned exhibitions at the Wallace Collection, where he showed a group of Francis Bacon inspired skull paintings and his 2012 exhibition of 'Parrot Pictures' at White Cube...
Fiona Banner Curates Rarely Seen V-A-C collection Works At The Whitechapel
Fiona Banner chooses rarely seen works from the V-A-C collection by artists including Gerhard Richter, Richard Avedon, Claude Monet and Sigmar Polke, to show at the Whitechapel Gallery from 9 December 2014. Highlights of the exhibition titled Stamp Out Photographie...
Alberto Giacometti $101m Chariot Sculpture Leads Sotheby’s Modern Sale
Sotheby's Autumn Impressionist and Modern sale in New York has realised $422 million, against presale expectations of $316.5–424.9 million. This has been a record breaker for the auction room setting the highest-ever auction total in Sotheby's...