London Art Fair 36th Edition: A Celebration of Diversity in Contemporary Art artlyst.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artlyst.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dame Elisabeth Frink, one of Britain's most important post-war sculptors, and arguably its greatest female sculptor, died on April 18th, 1993, in Dorset. This year, on the thirtieth anniversary of her death, Dorset Museum and Art Gallery in Dorchester are presenting 'Elisabeth Frink: A View From Within', the museum's first-ever exhibition to focus on Frink's life and work in Dorset. In 1976, visiting friends in Sherborne with her husband Alex, Frink happened across a neglected, secluded house for sale. She had lived in Dorset as a child from the age of 11 when her father, an army officer, was stationed in the county. She loved the Dorset landscape, and this house she saw, and its spacious grounds – provided the perfect site for her large-scale works, and the light essential for her work, as well as land to keep horses. Thus, it was Woolland House, near Blandford Forum – around ten miles from Dorchester - which became her home and studio for sixteen years fr
Paintings by Sam Francis and Therese Cotard-Dupre will be part of Cottone's September 29th auction artfixdaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artfixdaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A woman was thrilled after discovering a sculpture she bought at a car boot sale for just £90, was created by one of the 20th Century s greatest artists and worth a staggering £60,000.