Remember Us IV (Watch Your Head). Courtesy of Amar Singh Gallery/Christie s New York.
Christie’s New York is adding a twist to its sale of Abstract Expressionist art by pioneers such as Elaine de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan today.
Winning bidders will have the option to claim the free, unique NFTs that were inspired by the artists, where they hung out during their lifetimes, and how collectors might display their work today. The Hartigan NFT, for example, shows one of the artist’s paintings hanging above patrons at the old New York art bar the Cedar Tavern.
Christieâs Images 2021
In a
Tatler exclusive, weâre pleased to break the news of the forthcoming Christieâs Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
Trailblazers: Centuries of Female Abstraction, to be held on 14 May 2021. Celebrating the women of abstract expressionism, the auction will present connoisseurs of both digital and traditional art the rarified opportunity to acquire paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Yvonne Thomas, and Lynne Mapp Drexler. Each work is accompanied by an original NFT created by
Rewind Collective in response to the lives and oeuvres of the women featured.
So what are NFTs exactly?
Walking into a room of Jackson Pollock’s drip-paintings in 1951, Helen Frankenthaler said the experience was like moving to Lisbon with no Portuguese and feeling compelled to put down roots: “I wanted to live in this land, and I had to live there but I just didn’t know the language.” This wild terrain was Abstract Expressionism and, while it may have seemed a far-flung monoglot culture to the precocious 22-year-old Frankenthaler, her own syntax of forms would soon come to express so much of what that language was able to articulate.
Frankenthaler’s immersion did not take long. After completing her art school studies at Bennington College in 1950, she moved back to New York, and by the following spring she was offered her first solo show at Tibor de Nagy Gallery on the strength of her formative abstractions.
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The Free Little Art Gallery on Queen Anne applies the “take a book, leave a book” approach to handcrafted miniature art. (Daniel Spils)
Seattle’s buzziest gallery sits on a residential street at the top of Queen Anne Hill on First Avenue North near Garfield Street. Since opening in mid-December, hundreds of new works have passed through its sleek white walls, and the space has earned glowing features by The Washington Post, CNN.com and CBS News. It’s the
Free Little Art Gallery, square footage approximately 1.
Seattle artist