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...Individual works from his estate include three by Robert Ryman (estimated up to £2mn); Agnes Martin’s late “Untitled” (2001, £400,000-£600,000) and Andy Warhol’s early Shipping Label work, “Fragile” (1962...
...Martin, Bridget Riley and many others....
...Only one work flew far ahead of expectations: Agnes Martin’s “Grey Stone II” (1961), which was estimated between $6mn and $8mn and hammered for $16mn ($18.7mn with fees)....
...References to fast food from McDonald's and Dairy Queen are ubiquitous, but so are allusions to artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin....
...to student days and Martin’s initial encounter with Cecilia....
...American minimalist counterparts include Agnes Martin’s trembling grids, Donald Judd’s gold-hued stacks, Robert Ryman’s white paintings....
...Europe is in a serious situation,” says Eric-André Martin, a specialist in Franco-German relations at French think-tank IFRI....
...Influenced by her new neighbours, including Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly, she took up minimalism and eastern religion with equal enthusiasm, creating frameless tapestries that hung in the air like stars...
...In her current work, which involves imitative paintings overlaid with domestic objects, she is looking at Agnes Martin, the American painter, and Eileen Chang, a feminist writer in 1940s Shanghai who moved...
...Seven-figure sales were reported on opening day, including “We Mourn Our Loss #2” (1997) by Kerry James Marshall, which sold for $2.8mn (Jack Shainman Gallery) and a 1998 Agnes Martin for $7mn (Pace Gallery...
...Martin Wolf explains why the strength of the dollar has recessionary effects elsewhere....
...As in November’s sale, an Agnes Martin work far exceeded expectations, with “Early Morning Happiness” earning the night’s biggest round of applause when it sold for $9.9mn, compared with a $2.5mn-$3.5mn...
...Martin Scorsese once commented that his adaptation of The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton’s novel about New York’s elites in the late 19th century, was his “most violent” film — a reference to the ferocious...
...The actor and comedian let us photograph him with some of his beloved acquisitions, works he rightly thinks should hang alongside Agnes Martin and Jackson Pollock in the canon of contemporary art....
...For the “Bullet Drawing” series, Parker melted lead from a bullet, stretched it out and sewed it through paper; the results recall Agnes Martin’s airy, irregular linear abstractions....
...“These pictures could hang next to any works of the same period and hold their own,” Martin says now. “I daydream about seeing them mixed in with paintings by Agnes Martin and Jackson Pollock.”...
...They brim with pretty well all the super-established names — Agnes Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly — as well as lesser-known ones such as Vincent Fecteau...
...Paintings by Agnes Martin and Philip Guston sold for more than double their midpoint estimates, with a new record set for Martin as well as Jackson Pollock, Robert Irwin and Michael Heizer, according to...
...the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up”, notes Martin Wolf....
...Other highlights include Gerhard Richter’s three metre-wide “Seascape” (1975), estimated at $25mn-$35mn, and two works by Agnes Martin, for whom the first Macklowe sale made an auction record of $17.7mn...
...Martin and Nasreen Mohamedi, for whom the abstract grid encoded a spiritual impulse, the expression of a nameless deity that signified inner unity and freedom....
...Martin and Tauba Auerbach....
...This meditative approach to abstract painting harks back to the colour fields of Mark Rothko and the minimalist grids of Agnes Martin, who advocated an emptying of the mind according to her beliefs in Zen...
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...In Northern Ireland, that path to respectability had been trodden by Martin McGuinness, who pulled off the unlikely transition from IRA chieftain to suit-clad politician, shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth...
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