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...He made his first sale to Andy Jllien, a shoe designer who took him to the Kronenhalle, a restaurant in Zurich owned by the Zumsteg silk trading family....
...Mike Wirth, Chevron’s chief executive, rejected the lawsuit’s claims in an interview with the Financial Times, saying: “We have never deceived anybody.”...
...This year, Chevron dropped its age cap of 65 for chief executive Mike Wirth, now 63, to ensure continuity at the oil and gas company....
...The highest reported sale price by far was $20mn for Philip Guston’s “Painter at Night” (1979) through Hauser & Wirth, though most other transactions were made between $50,000 and $500,000....
...Swiss gallerists Iwan and Manuela Wirth of contemporary art gallery Hauser & Wirth are no strangers to ambitious hospitality projects....
...The opening show features work by, among others, Lubna Chowdhary, Rohini Devasher, Atul Dodiya, Shilpa Gupta, Bharti Kher, Annie Morris, Manu Parekh and Dayanita Singh, as well as Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol...
...Still, on Wednesday night at Sotheby’s contemporary art sale, Andy Warhol’s tough, 12ft-high “White Disaster [White Car Crash 19 Times]” (1963), guaranteed at the last minute, sold for $74mn ($85.4mn with...
...Mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, which opened a new space in West Hollywood last week, brought a booth dedicated to 14 artists and estates from the city....
...He notes the capital’s strong auction season in March, plus the recent real estate commitments from major galleries such as Pace and Hauser & Wirth....
...It is less traumatic for galleries, which invest heavily in building reputations, with Gagosian and Hauser & Wirth putting on exhibitions around the world: higher prices represent a return on the investment...
...A very large Andy Warhol painting of Elvis, dressed as a cowboy and pointing a pistol at the viewer, looks down on us....
...The town is home to the Hauser & Wirth art gallery — branches of which can also be found in places such as New York, LA and Zurich — the Newt, a luxury hotel and spa owned by South African billionaire Koos...
...These include an Andy Warhol silkscreen, “Flowers” (1965), which sold for $2.4m (auction house estimate $1.2m-$1.8m), and Victor Vasarely’s “Ond-Kett” (1969), which sold for $87,500 (est $50,000-$70,000)...
...Rogers-designed residential development and the gallery arcade linking Cork Street and Old Burlington Street, will be one of the largest in the West End, outsized in scale only by the likes of Hauser & Wirth...
...referencing the writer JG Ballard and the artists who had responded in some way to his work — a smart way of making up a show (partly on loan, partly for sale) that encompassed artists as disparate as Andy...
...These concoctions look better at Hauser & Wirth than they did at MoMA a few years back....
...Their daughter, Giuseppina Panza, describes the arrangement with Hauser & Wirth as “an exclusive, long-term partnership”....
...“The Andy Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art is truly a revelation....
...While much of the art at auction last week was “fresh” to the market (ie it hadn’t been offered for many years), the top-selling works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s — respectively Andy Warhol’s “Six Self Portraits...
...They have taken on a 10-year lease at the old Citibank building on Hanover Square, in spitting distance from Sotheby’s and with gallery neighbours including Blain Southern and Hauser & Wirth....
...“There is sophisticated Asian interest this year,” said Iwan Wirth, president of Hauser & Wirth, whose sales included Eva Hesse’s “No title” (1961, $2.5m) to a Chinese museum....
...She has just opened a show at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich, with scrolling LEDs that use witness accounts from the civil war in Syria, as well as images of redacted documents from the FBI and CIA....
...Vandenberg’s estate is now one of those represented by Hauser & Wirth, and he has had solo shows in Europe, America and Asia....
...Photographs: Iwan Baan/SFMoMA; Henrik Kam; Brian Forrest/Paul Cooper Gallery/Hauser & Wirth; Estate of Roy Lichtenstein...
...While 37 of the 46 lots on offer found buyers, giving a respectable 80 per cent sold rate, the cover lot, Andy Warhol’s dark “Four Marilyns” (1986) was left unsold at £800,000, well under its target of £1.2m...
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