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...In this display of more than 70 pieces, curator Nicholas Cullinan probes their functionality: “Painting or sculpture?” he asks. “Utilitarian or ornamental?”...
...His sale at Christie’s includes prime postwar Italian art — notably Lucio Fontana’s chartreuse-green “Concetto spaziale, attese” (1960, est €500,000-€700,000)....
...He would have been a poet had he not inherited a huge textiles business which gave him the means to fill a Venetian palace with art, Fontana was a favourite....
...In his Art Law Report, lawyer Nicholas O’Donnell writes that it “certainly disincentivises holding sales in California”....
...young aristocrat is portrayed with a loyal spaniel at his feet, the Temple of the Sibyl at Tivoli in the background and to his side the first-century statue, “Roma Triumphans”, set into Michelangelo’s Fontana...
...“There were too many Giacomettis, eight in total, in the sale,” says Nicholas Maclean of the dealership Eykyn Maclean....
...London-based designer Nicholas Kirkwood also found inspiration in the art world, paying tribute to Keith Haring on the 20th anniversary of his death via 10 one-off pieces featuring signature characters and...
...Fabienne Nicholas, head of consultancy for the Contemporary Art Society, said the boom had made dealers hungry to discover new talent....
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