Who Was Georgia O’keeffe’s Younger Man, Juan Hamilton?
When John Bruce Hamilton first met Georgia O’Keeffe, the 84-year-old doyenne of modern American art was so annoyed by his unexpected presence that she looked right through him the entire time he was there. Hamilton, a broke 27-year-old, newly divorced potter, tagged along with a friend with the intention to help fix the plumbing at […]
How Giacometti’s Existentialist Figures Became The Art World’s Obsessions
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. – Alberto Giacometti One of the most admired and famed Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti takes the top three spots on the list of the highest-priced sculptures in art market history. L’Homme au doigt (1947) was sold for $141.3 million […]
David Hockney’s Living Colors
On November 15, 2019, in a crowded salesroom at Christie’s Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York, famous David Hockney’s 1972 painting ‘Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)’ was sold for a staggering sum of $90.3 million after just nine minutes of bidding. This turned out to be the most expensive work by a […]
Women Dominating In Contemporary Art Today
The artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind. – Marina Abramović From Rosa Bonheur and Mary Cassatt to Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe — great women artists in art history have not been nearly as widely represented as their male colleagues. But […]