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...The aim, says Phillip Ihenacho, the director, is to show that far from being a dusty repository of restituted bronzes, MOWAA wants to become a living, breathing centre for working artists, an engine of job...
...Damien Hirst’s latest paintings go on view for the first time at Phillips in London next week (July 20-August 18)....
...I’d pair it with a brief description of the life of its inventor, Bill Phillips, who had more adventures than Indiana Jones....
...Held in a disused commercial space, the Unfair was abuzz, not just with gallerists and collectors but artists such as Damien Hirst, who staged a performance with identical twins sitting beneath a pair of...
...The generally good-quality sale had eight works withdrawn, accounting for up to £12mn and including Damien Hirst’s “I love you more than words can say” (1999, est £300,000-£500,000)....
...Benoît Repellin, head of jewellery Europe at auctioneers Phillips, says: “[The revived names] attract collectors who are not familiar with the brands.”...
...It was a two-hour drive up the A10 or A11 that attracted mortgage broker Roger Phillips and his wife, from Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire....
...On a bright evening in London last week, three paintings hung at the front of the Phillips auction room for its 20th-century and contemporary art sale....
...During the Young British Artists wave, favour shifted to conceptual pieces by the likes of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. Doig doggedly stuck to painting....
...“At Phillips, we’ve sold Gilbert and George postcard sculptures for more than £15,000,” says Olivia Thornton, head of 20th-century & contemporary art, Europe....
...It has drawn in not just the established auction houses but prominent artists, among them Turner Prize winners Damien Hirst and Jeremy Deller, who have announced or launched NFT art projects....
...Most of the 120 works are estimated in four figures, but items that can perhaps be picked up on the cheap include a Damien Hirst syringe cabinet from 1995 (“Love Will Tear Us Apart”, est $15,000-$20,000)...
...NFTs can be “minted” — that’s the term for created — for virtually anything, from a modified image of “Salvator Mundi” by Leonardo da Vinci (not sold yet) to a new series of paintings by Damien Hirst....
...Back in the 1980s, the late art dealer Karsten Schubert introduced Tibbles to the work of an art student called Damien Hirst....
...Alongside Charles Saatchi, Tibbles was one of the first supporters of Damien Hirst and among the works on offer are the British artist’s early spot painting “Antipyrylazo III” (1994, est £900,000-£1.2m)...
...Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips all currently plan auctions in town during the week of July 6....
...Artists whose work sold to lone bids included Damien Hirst, Francis Bacon, Christopher Wool and even social media sensation KAWS....
...“I was hanging out with Björk and Jarvis Cocker, and with Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jay Jopling, with Hussein Chalayan and the Chapman Brothers. It was an amazing time. A revolution in the arts.”...
...At the height of the market in 2014, one example sold for £224,500 at Sotheby’s: this June, Phillips achieved just £20,000 for a strictly comparable work....
...Frank was business manager to Damien Hirst for 15 years until 2010, a period that encompassed the artist’s ambitious “Pharmacy” and “Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” auctions....
...Inside My Head Forever auction for £668,450 in 2008 and was withdrawn from auction in 2014 went for £449,000 at Phillips this week....
..., is likely disappointed that pieces by Jean Dubuffet and Damien Hirst sold for less than he had paid for them in 2013 and 2011 respectively....
...ExxonMobil shares declined 1.4 per cent on Friday to $88.95, while Phillips 66 slid 0.2 per cent to $76.06....
...Georgina Adam is away Photographs: Phillips; Christie’s...
...As for Mr Staechelin, I asked him what will happen to the works formerly in the Basel Kunstmuseum. “16 of them will stay on show at the Phillips Collection in Washington until January next year,” he replied...
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