Andy Warhol’s Self Portrait will display at auction for the first time at Sotheby’s London on 28 June. The Self Portrait, which is predicted to make £7 million at auction, is part of the auction house’s Contemporary Art Evening in the U.K’s capital. Self Portrait, created in 1963-4, is a piece from his very first series of self-portraits where he began his interest in blending ideas of art and celebrity. The piece was assembled using...
Wassily Kandinsky’s visionary masterpiece Murnau—Landschaft mit grünem Haus appears at auction for the first time. On the 21st June, 2017 auctioneers will be invited to bid on Wassily Kandinksy’s Muranu. The event will mark the fist time this piece of art will be at auction and is one of the feature pieces of Sotheby’s ‘impressionist & modern art evening sale’. Wassily Kandinsky’s credited to be one of the first artists to be recognised for creating...
Fahrelnissa Zeid’s epic, vividly colourful abstract canvases represent a dynamic fusion of European sensibilities with Islamic, Persian and Byzantine touches—a compelling cocktail that Tate Modern will explore this summer in a major new retrospective of the artist. Zeid was born in 1901 on the island of Büyükada off the coast of Istanbul to a prominent Ottoman family of intellectuals and artists. Introduced to painting at an early age, in 1919 she became one of the...
Once a rebellious pop artist, David Hockney is now considered the greatest living British painter. An upcoming retrospective will showcase a collection of the artist’s celebrated masterpieces from the last six decades. Running from 9 February until 29 May, this highly anticipated David Hockney exhibition by Tate Britain promises to be one of the most comprehensive to date. Bringing together famous paintings, prints and portraits, the display will celebrate the artist’s accomplishments over the past...
The Georgia O’Keeffe exhibition at the Tate Modern marks the 100th anniversary of her New York debut. Best known for her paintings of magnified flowers, animal skulls and New Mexico desert landscapes, Georgia O’Keeffe is a pioneer of 20th century art. The exhibition, which will run until 30 October 2016 at the Tate Modern, London, marks the 100th anniversary of her New York debut. The retrospective gives a rare chance to see over 100 of her...
Inventive, prolific and daring, Robert Rauschenberg was one of the giants of American art in the second half of the 20th century. Endlessly innovative, he flitted between painting, sculpture, print-making, stage design and performance and was particularly well-known for his imaginative use of materials, creating pieces that interrogated the boundaries between what was and wasn’t art. From 1 December 2016 to 2 April 2017, Tate Modern is staging the first major U.K. exhibition of Robert...
‘Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.’—William Morris William Morris, an Arts and Crafts pioneer with distaste for capitalism and passion for natural beauty continues to inspire over a century later, resulting in quintessentially British collections. When William Morris died in 1896, aged 62, he would have been undoubtedly contented with his valiant efforts at beautifying the world through his craftsmanship—and commanding a revolution...
Work by the British artist Eric Ravilious, after 50 years of neglect, is today receiving a new surge of appreciation that is redefining this artist’s significance. During his short life Eric Ravilious excelled as a painter, watercolourist, official war artist, printmaker, wood engraver, book illustrator, designer of textiles, and a designer of porcelain for Wedgwood and glass for Stuart Crystal. He died in 1942 aged 39 while on assignment as a war artist—from an RAF...
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see this landmark exhibition of Matisse’s Cut-Outs before it closes on September 7 (free entry for under-12s). The exhibition brings together around 120 works from the period in which Matisse began ‘cutting into colour’. 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 August 2014 (15.00 – 16.00) Tate Modern is also showing the film ‘With Matisse in Tangier’ (free entry). Henri Matisse visited Tangier in 1912-13, and Moroccan culture had a lifelong impact on his work. This...
Artist Franck Bouroullec knows much about the pressures and expectations aspiring artists have when entering a world-renowned art college programme. As a young artist in his native France, Frank entered the l’ESAG (Higher School of Graphic Arts) in Paris. Two years later he successfully passed the highly competitive entrance examination of the prestigious Ecole des Gobelins (School of Visual Arts and Communication) also in Paris, from which he graduated with a diploma in the Animated...
