Run don’t walk to the last nine days of Picasso Tete a Tete @gagosian 980 Madison Ave. It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity to see 52 works from the collection of his daughter Paloma Picasso, including many works never ever exhibited before. Closing July 3rd.
“BOSS.” The word thunders in glowing orange from a contrasting expanse of midnight navy in Ed Ruscha’s ‘Securing the Last Letter (Boss)’ from 1964, interrupted only by the industrial C-clamp that squinches and compresses the final letter.
“There’s a stereotype of a boss. And just by owning this painting, Emily Fisher Landau subverted that stereotype.” - @brookemlampley , Sotheby’s Global Chairman and Head of Global Fine Art
Merging Pop Art, conceptualism, and a distinct West Coast sensibility with an elemental graphic force, Ruscha’s Text paintings of the 1960s transformed ordinary language into arresting visual statements that launched the artist into the innovative forefront of American contemporary art. Discover more in our link in bio. #TheFisherLandauLegacy #EdRuscha
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Highlights on view at Sotheby’s today until Friday. Back on again in November. Dubai/Hong Kong/London/Paris/Taipei/LA in between. Auctions November 8th and 9th
#ruscha #johns #warhol #ligon #rothko #tansey #rauschenberg #okeeffe #dekooning #picasso
#emilyfisherlandau #emilyfisherlandaucollection
This morning @sothebys made an exciting announcement from the historic Breuer building that this fall we will be offering The Collection of Emily Fisher Landau, one of the great pioneer collectors of the 20th Century, who stands alongside visionary women like Peggy Guggenheim, Gertrude Stein and Isabella Stewart Gardner as one of the individuals whose prescient eye and profound institutional patronage has truly shaped our understanding of art of this century.
I’ve gotten to spend special time with the entire collection but particularly this Picasso, Femme a la Montre, 1932, a masterpiece from my favorite period of Picasso’s work and one of my favorite series of artworks in history. It was also Emily Fisher Landau’s favorite. It has quickly stolen my heart.
#emilyfisherlandaucollection #sothebys #picasso #picassoandme❤️
Breaking news: this magnificent Klimt portrait, Woman with Fan, 1917-1918 just set a new auction record for the most valuable work of art ever sold in Europe. Sold for £74 million hammer or £85.3m with premium ($108.4m)—showing the market for masterpieces is as strong and global as ever.
#breakingrecords #sothebys
Spending Mother’s Day with the ultimate art metaphor for motherhood. 🕷️
Louise Bourgeois’ epic Spider sculptures pay tribute to her own mother, a tapestry weaver, and showcase mothers as at once protectors and predators, tender and fearsome. The sculpture’s form is designed to look spindly and delicate, but its composition in bronze is fiercely strong. It’s a contradiction I certainly relate to as both a mother and a daughter- my mother would have walked in front of a bus for me and I would not hesitate for my children. That primal sense of fragility and endangerment that makes you utterly fearless and totally invincible.
This particular Spider was acquired directly from the artist in the year it was executed and has been in the collection of Fundacao Itau ever since.
This work is one of few examples by a female artist to have broken the $30 million mark at auction. It is in the company of works like Frida Kahlo self-portraits and Georgia O’Keeffe flowers, all of which have reset the market for female artists by appealing to a global audience of all genders with subjects that explore the very essence of femininity and womanhood.
I can’t wait to keep crushing that glass ceiling on Thursday night.
@sothebys@katia.sothebysbrasil #contemporaryeveningsale #bourgeois #spider
