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...To October 9, newmuseum.org Letter in response to this article: Better late than never for FT Weekend pleasures / From Jacqui Francis, Birmingham, UK...
...Sotheby’s can still boast the more slickly streamed sale, and the highest price for this makeshift season ($84.6m with fees for a 1981 Francis Bacon triptych), but Christie’s had the bigger haul, reflecting...
...Schiele, Yves Klein — mostly running alongside parallel displays devoted to lesser knowns, usually women, to give fresh, even eccentric context: Jackson Pollock and Romanian conceptualist Geta Brâtescu; Francis...
...Brighter spots included Pablo Picasso’s late “Homme et femme nus” (1968), offered by the same seller as the Léger but with a better result....
...Highlights include Francis Newton Souza’s “Untitled” (1958), depicting three nude figures (estimated at £600,000-£800,000), and a rare Amrita Sher-Gil, “Trees”, (estimated at £500,000-£700,000)....
...He had resolved to sell his share of Esprit and his art collection (which included works by Francis Bacon, Balthus, Hopper, Léger and Picasso) so as to devote his considerable wealth to environmentalism....
...Auctions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips produced multimillion-dollar sales for artists including Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, Roy Lichtenstein, Fernand Léger and Cy Twombly, helping...
...The vibrant Modernism of such works, with flourishes reminiscent of Braque and Léger, coexists with a sense of deep cultural roots....
...Fernand Léger, Jean Cocteau, Francis Picabia and Man Ray also lived there, and Marc Chagall, Raoul Dufy, Henri Matisse and Amedeo Modigliani were nearby....
...Francis Bacon “painted in order to shock”; he is accused of complacency, egocentricity, conformity....
...Important works by Brancusi, Kandinsky and Léger are visitors from MoMA New York....
...Private collections included works by Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee and Francis Bacon.”...
...We take for granted this fair’s impressive solo works and presentations – Rembrandt, Rubens, David Smith, Francis Bacon – though there are still too few surprises or challenges to fashion....
...Frieze Masters, October 15-19, sponsored by Deutsche Bank and Gucci. friezemasters.com Photographs: Francis Bacon Estate/DACS; Hugh Kelly...
...Established exhibitors are pulling out the stops as well: Thomas Gibson is bringing seven works, from Delacroix to Léger, conjured out of a private collection in Texas; Marlborough has a solo Francis Bacon...
...Entr’acte (1924), by Francis Picabia and René Clair, with a score by Erik Satie, plunges straight into weirdness. It begins with a cannon firing directly at the audience....
...He is interested in typography, previous artists; he trained as a painter with Léger. He is also a story-teller. For Klein, pictures provide raw material for later thought. Moriyama never does this....
...Works by other key modernists such as Kurt Schwitters, Fernand Léger, Joan Miró and Francis Picabia are on show in the foundation, all part of the collection Calder built up over his life....
...From Mr Stephen Saint-Leger....
...She believes the gang was responsible for at least 100 forgeries of Campendonk, Pechstein, Derain, Léger and other artists, and that they have infiltrated the open market....
...“Sell in May and go away, come back on St Leger’s day” is the best-known piece of rhyming market wisdom. It is also one of the few with a decent track record, the FT’s James Mackintosh writes....
...Otherwise, contemporary and post-war art, including works by Francis Bacon and Mark Rothko, mainly sold at their estimated prices....
...The Côte d’Azur is a showcase for postwar modernism, with museums devoted to Picasso, Chagall, Leger, Matisse, Bonnard – who all lived there....
...Picasso, Kupka, Mondrian, Léger and Francis Bacon are among the offerings....
...more contemporary artists (Lucio Fontana, Sam Francis, Andy Warhol, Arman, José-María Sicilia, Claudio Parmiggiani, Terry Rodgers)....
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