Celebrating Women’s History Month:
"Memory is a painter. It paints pictures of the past and of the day"... Read More
Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Käthe Kollwitz
“Few artists are as universally loved as Käthe Kollwitz” — Elizabeth Prelinger, National Gallery of Art Like other successful women artists of her generation, Käthe Kollwitz was an...
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Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Marie-Louise Motesiczky
“You are a very great painter, and the world will hear of you” — Elias Canetti, letter to the artist Born in 1906, Marie-Louise Motesiczky belonged to one of Vienna’s most prominen...
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Celebrating Women’s History Month:
Paula Modersohn-Becker
“Modersohn-Becker painted from an implicitly feminist point of view, granting women a memorable emotional complexity through the physicality of her paint and the solidity of her forms” ...
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Winter Antiques Show 2016
Mostly Moses
The Galerie St. Etienne, the oldest gallery in America specializing in the work of self-taught artists, marks its debut at the Winter Antiques Show with a curated exhibition focusing on Grandma Moses,...
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Grandma Moses: A New Look at an Old Favorite
"American Sampler: Grandma Moses and the Handicraft Tradition," on view at the Dayton Art Institute through February 21, reveals the origins of America’s most famous folk style.... Read More
Why Are the Most Expensive Artists STILL Male?
Amadeo Modigliani became the latest man to join the nine-figure club when his "Reclining Nude" sold for $170.4 million at Christie’s on November 9, 2015. Why are all the most expensive artists male?... Read More
Blockbuster Exhibition “The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka” in Vienna
The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka, curated by Galerie St. Etienne Co-Director Jane Kallir and Belvedere Vice-Director Alfred Weidinger, is drawing record crowds at the Belvedere Museum in Vien... Read More
What Is Art For?
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Beirut and Bamako, the Galerie St. Etienne offers some thoughts first published in October 2001. Art serves many functions, but in the last decades, undu... Read More