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...Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker by Aoife Brady (Yale/National Gallery of Ireland) Lavinia Fontana, born in 1552 and the first woman in Europe to become a professional artist, is astonishingly...
...Emerging from Darkness: Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque’, Hamilton Gallery A significant display of European Baroque art centred around three female painters: Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana...
...American minimalist counterparts include Agnes Martin’s trembling grids, Donald Judd’s gold-hued stacks, Robert Ryman’s white paintings....
...Made in 1956, relatively early on in Fontana’s galactic odyssey, Gandur’s “Concetto spaziale” is an unexpected find....
...Since the 1940s, they have worked with celebrated artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Jannis Kounellis, Ana Mendieta and Cy Twombly....
...For the Swiss fair, his gallery is bringing ceramics from 1936-66 by the Italian modernist Lucio Fontana (€100,000-€4m)....
...You enter the exhibition through a vivid red Spatial Environment by Lucio Fontana, 1967’s “Ambiente Spaziale a luce rossa” — an ethereal space of parallel corridors....
...They opened their first art space in 1957, exhibiting Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg....
...Her gallery will show a punctured “Concetto Spaziale” (1962, priced at €3m) by Lucio Fontana, which comes from the collection of the writer, art historian and friend of Fontana, Guido Ballo....
...David Yazbek’s numbers have a chatty, cabaret-like feel to them that accommodates a range of vocal styles and blends well with Robert Horn’s book, which is full of salty one-liners....
...Sculptural and mixed-media pieces by Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri and Piero Manzoni will go up for auction alongside works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois....
...And the things I’m eyeing next are a 16th-century Urbino majolica polychrome figurine for my collection, and a glass vase by Giberto Arrivabene, inspired by the work of Lucio Fontana, that was exhibited...
...The Venice Biennale of 1952 rejected him until Lucio Fontana intervened, and it was Fontana who bought there the first work Burri ever sold: “Studio per lo Strappo” (“Study for the Rip”)....
...FFS bags and T-shirts were available to buy at the Saatchi Gallery in London, while the fair’s marketing-savvy founder, Robert Sandelson, sported an FFS tie over the weekend....
...In the 1950s-70s, Giorgio Morandi’s bottles, Alberto Burri’s gaping wounds on woven jute, Lucio Fontana’s rhythmically slashed canvases and Giulio Paolini’s “Ebla”, a trompe-l’oeil painted collage of blue-green...
...Robert Ketterer, too, at the auction house Ketterer Kunst, founded in 1954, credits specialisation with the company’s success....
...Ellisse bracelet, Lucio Fontana (1967) Mr Montebello, whom Mrs Venet describes as the “father of artist jewellery”, made another of her favourite pieces — a large bracelet by Lucio Fontana, the founder...
...Robert Clergerie, 180 Walton Street, London SW3 (020-7584 4995; www.robertclergerie.com)....
...As gallerist Robert Young puts it, it “defines an era unimaginably remote from ours today”....
...But perhaps conductor Robert Howarth didn’t want to overdo it....
...Much has been made of deep-pocketed Chinese buyers collecting modern and contemporary art but Christie’s sale of the Robert Ellsworth collection in New York last week comes as a reminder that traditional...
...an alternative bedside table, a graffiti-ish portrait of Picasso’s chauffeur as Homeric hero, “Buste d’homme barbu”, across from a sink piled high with dirty dishes, and a sparkling white slashed Lucio Fontana...
...It was Fabio’s nephew, Cardinal Flavio Chigi, who in 1680 had turned the former farmhouse into a Carlo Fontana-designed villa....
...The earliest American works are the 1951 “White Paintings” with which Robert Rauschenberg set out to reduce painting to its essence....
...A Lucio Fontana made $20.9m, going to the New York dealer Dominique Levy, who buys for the Mexican collector David Martinez; Levy was highly active at the sale at the top levels, also underbidding the de...
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