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...Artists such as Faith Ringgold, Jacob Lawrence and Betye Saar in the US were making work about their predicament at the same time as Nigeria’s Modernists such as Uche Okeke and Demas Nwoko were wrangling...
...“It’s Jennifer Lawrence,” says Gagosian. “She sat for it. We offered it to her. John says, you know, ‘Jennifer likes the painting, shall we sell it to her?’ And I say, ‘Of course.’...
...Lawrence Salander of the now defunct Salander O’Reilly gallery in New York defrauded customers to the tune of millions before what was dubbed the “art world’s Ponzi scheme” collapsed....
...Highlight is Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s fantasy of smothered beauty “The Roses of Heliogabalus”, unseen in Britain since 1913....
...She has neither the flashy flagship spaces nor the extensive reach or huge rosters of uber-dealers such as Gagosian or Hauser & Wirth; she never trumpets art-fair sales or reveals revenues....
...A book of the same title, with texts by Richard Benefield, David Hockney, Sarah Howgate and Lawrence Weschler, is published by DelMonico Books – Prestel in association with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco...
...Libson always has lovely things, including a portrait of a boy by Sir Thomas Lawrence priced in the region of £120,000....
...In March, White Cube joined Gagosian and Ben Brown in the city, debuting with a show by Gilbert and George....
...historic Pedder Building, which is increasingly being taken over by art galleries, Ben Brown is showing paintings, bronzes and ceramics by the Spanish artist Barceló, while above him the heavy-hitting Gagosian...
...Read her review of Thomas Lawrence at the National Portrait Gallery ‘RSTW’ [Rauschenberg, Serra, Twombly, Warhol and Wool], an exhibition from Gagosian’s private collection, Menarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi...
...the suicide of his lover George Dyer, to Chris Ofili’s “No Woman No Cry” (1998), a London painting known both for its masterly, inventive form and subject – it is a tribute to murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence...
...Rome Franz West The Gagosian Gallery exhibits a selection of new sculptures by Frank West from Thursday....
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