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...Pollock’s abstract “Number 17, 1951”, from his Black Paintings series, also set a record at $61m, including fees....
...Three works — by Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and the American sculptor Tom Otterness, and with a combined estimate of between $5.4m and $8.3m — had guarantees from the auction house but didn’t sell...
...They met Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollock, and in 1950 had shown American and European painters such as Jean Dubuffet and Mark Rothko....
...These have included Jackson Pollock’s “Red Composition” (1946), which sold from Syracuse’s Everson Museum for $12m ($13m with fees, Christie’s) “to benefit acquisitions and collections care”....
...Elizabeth Goldberg, who joined Phillips from Sotheby’s last year to boost its American art expertise, says “America’s contribution to 20th-century painting [is perceived as starting] with Jackson Pollock...
...Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips are less well known; the sole woman in the group, Pauline Boty, has had a belated rediscovery....
...The collections are reportedly worth at least $1bn combined, and while they are unlikely to flood the market in one session, works by prized painters such as Picasso, Rothko, Warhol and Pollock could be...
...But I don’t think that the history of art will go Matisse, Pollock, Johns, Basquiat, KAWS.”...
...Jackson Pollock’s “Lucifer” (1947), currently in the Anderson Collection, San Francisco, would light most collectors’ fire, along with a Jasper Johns “Flag” from the 1950s: one takes pride of place in Los...
...According to a spokesperson for Phillips: “Ann Freedman has 40 years’ experience in Color Field paintings and is working with Phillips as a one-time consultant to enhance the quality of the thematic Color...
...Panmure, led by chief executive Phillip Wale, employs a total of 30 people on its corporate broking and corporate finance team....
...Panmure’s chief executive Phillip Wale, a former trader and Goldman Sachs banker who took the helm in 2012, said: “We’ve done very well from a beaten-up start.”...
...Several surviving members of the Abstract Expressionist generation were friends of mine, including sculptor Phillip Pavia, who presided over a group of New York School artists known as “The Club”....
...Pages ripped from the diary of actor Ed Harris explain the emotional cost of his transformation into Jackson Pollock for the 2000 movie ‘Pollock’, and complex sketches by Alfred Hitchcock map the camera...
...Still in London, Phillips de Pury is doing its bit for world peace with an exhibition (on view at the ICA) and auction of works by leading British artists....
...Wool also features at Phillips de Pury on May 10 with “Untitled 69” (1992, est $2.5m-$3.5m)....
...The event attracted an impressive roll-call of visitors, including Tate Modern director Chris Dercon, New Museum’s Lisa Phillips with a group of trustees, the collector of Chinese art Guy Ullens, noted local...
...The Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, is an elite boarding school that has produced, among others, both Presidents Bush, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Sellars, Carl Andre, Frank Stella, photographer Walker...
...Phillips Collection, Washington DC, June 21-Sept 7 (tel: +1 202-387 2151)...
...Most recently, he sold a Jackson Pollock painting for $140m, which would make it the most expensive artwork ever known to be sold....
...construction recalls Corot, to the jewel-bright cascades of crusty white pigment, overlaid with flashes of crimson, green, blue, in “The Wave”, borrowed from Memphis, which suggests Renoir as ancestor to Jackson Pollock...
...Always a champion of American art, he moved slowly into abstraction but in the 1950s began buying pictures by the New York School: Jackson Pollock, de Kooning and Joan Mitchell among them....
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