Category: Art
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
Paula Modersohn-Becker: Art and Life
(November 3, 2015 – March 19, 2016)
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was almost completely unknown when she died following childbirth at the age of thirty-one, but within fifteen years she had become a near mythic figure in her native...
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Recent Acquisitions
(July 21 – October 16, 2015)
The gallery’s summer show of Recent Acquisitions features works by artists who for years were off the reigning “gatekeepers” radar: Leonard Baskin, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Morris H...
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Leonard Baskin’s “Wunderkammer”
Mid-Century Renegade Anticipates Contemporary Artistic Practice
Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the narratives that once structured the art world have been breaking down. Traditional hierarchies—between “high” and “low” culture, Western and n...
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Marie-Louise Motesiczky: The Mother Paintings
(October 7 – December 24th, 2014)
Noted art historian Ernst Gombrich compared Marie-Louise Motesiczky’s paintings of her mother, Henriette, to the work of Albrecht Dürer. The Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti considered these portraits ...
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Käthe Kollwitz: The Complete Print Cycles
(October 8 – December 28, 2013)
Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) created 99 etchings, 133 lithographs, 42 woodcuts, 19 extant sculptures and roughly 1,450 drawings in a career that spanned over half a century, but she is best known for h...
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