Museum of Arts and Design invites visitors into miniature world created by collector Joanna Fisher
The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo. Photo: Jenna Bascom.
NEW YORK, NY
.- Inspired by Venices glamorous Gritti Palace, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature is making its public debut at the Museum of Arts and Design. With a fifteenth-century classical exterior and ten rooms filled with an eclectic range of historical and contemporary craft, art, and design rendered in miniature, The Fisher Dollhouse: A Venetian Palazzo in Miniature displays an impressive collection of contemporary art created by more than ten international artists, many of whom are working in miniature for the first time. New York collector, maker, and arts patron Joanna Fisher conceived of the dollhouse in response to the lockdown required by the COVID-19 pandemic. Like so many, she was housebound and felt her world shrink and embraced it, literally. The dollhouse project offered Fisher a f
A Portrait of the late Doris Viscountess Castlerosse to go on sale at Christie s
London socialite died aged 42 of an overdose at the Dorchester Hotel in 1942
Before her marriage she dated several men, worked as a chorus girl in London
Was known for her long legs and lavish lifestyle, frequenting Cavendish Hotel
Her painting by Sir John Lavery set to fetch between £400,000 and £600,000
The
Times reports that it was recently discovered that Laveryâs 1938 oil painting, âThe Viscountess Castlerosse, Palm Springsâ, features the socialiteâs much-admired legs twice in one scene. Lady Castlerosse is pictured seated with her legs dangling off a diving board, while to the left of the painting a second figure is visible with their legs crossed on a bench, their face just beyond the range of the picture. It had previously been thought that the second figure was either a Hollywood director, or the Viscountessâs brother, Edward Delevingne (known as Dudley to his friends and family) â the grandfather of Chloe, Poppy and Cara.