Celebrity have their special tastes in art and furniture
Katharine Hepburn is featured in a photograph. Famous people like their collections of special things or art.
I have had a couple of movie star clientele more than the years as an appraiser, and though I just can’t examine my possess clients’ collections, Town and Nation, Vanity Reasonable and Artwork Web Information have described on movie star tastes this earlier month.
Netflix’s documentary series “Harry and Meghan” demonstrates the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Archewell Basis Places of work in Montecito decorated with a duplicate of the 1836 “Portrait of Louise Mayer” by Ferdinand Georg Waldemuller. A beautiful younger girl in a wonderful gown is noticed blowing a big pink bubblegum bubble.
The initial few of American pop music, Beyonce and Jay-Z, own operates by Tracy Emin, Donald Judd and Ed Ruscha, all present day present-day masters. Jay Z has labored with visuals by Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst on stage. In 2018, the pair shot a songs video clip in the Lourve singing and dancing alongside the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, the Mona Lisa in the Denon Wing, David’s Oath of the Horati and his Madame Recamier, and Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa.
Leonardo DiCaprio is described to be a typical at several Global Art Fairs, and he is a generous donor of performs of artwork he has owned to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
He scientific studies artwork history, remaining correct to his namesake. He is bringing Leonardo da Vinci to lifetime in a biopic based on Walter Isaacson’s e-book. Resources say Leonardo DiCaprio collects surrealism and hyperrealism.
Barbra Streisand is a noteworthy collector of American artwork and home furnishings. Rumor has it that at just one time she experienced a excellent Arts and Crafts assortment, as perfectly as American folk art and design. She commenced to collect American conventional painters soon after she was specified a tour of the art in the White Household by President Bill Clinton in 1992. She is generous to LACMA, where by she was a trustee from 2007-2014. She donated an 8 foot-tall John Singer Sargent oil on canvas (1900) to the Los Angeles museum.
Sean Combs (or P-Diddy) set a planet record for black artist Kerry James Marshall when in 2018 he manufactured the profitable bid at Sotheby’s for the artist’s “Past Times” (1997) at $21.1 million, the maximum rate paid up to that position for a dwelling black artist.
P-Diddy’s buddy Swiss Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and his wife Alicia Keys are tremendous collectors in the modern day art environment. Mr. Dean bought 70 significant is effective last calendar year. He likes overscale contemporary sculpture, primarily the work of KAWS.
An Instagram write-up displays the impresario and the artist on the feet of just one these wood carved KAWS perform at 19 feet tall.
The Dean Assortment Basis supports the do the job of contemporary black artists. They personal the largest collection of Gordon Parks pics in non-public arms, lately revealed at the Fogg at Harvard. They have Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.
Mr. Dean is on the board of the Brooklyn Museum and has under no circumstances recognized cash for any function he has deaccessioned, he accepts trades only. He is significant about artist’s rights.
Sir Elton John has a museum excellent selection of important pictures. Operates by Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe, Minimal White, Irving Penn and Gentleman Ray are on his walls. The Tate Present day borrowed his selection for their display “The Radical Eye: Modernist Images from the Sir Elton John Assortment.”
Cheech Marin is constructing a Riverside museum with California State funding of just about $10 million. The developing will have a distinctive structure and will residence Mr. Marin’s assortment of Chicano paintings, the greatest in private arms.
Madonna? She collects nude portraiture, Frida Kahlo (The Tate has borrowed this artist from her), and Tamara de Lempicka. She enjoys Art Deco design and style in painting and in home furniture.
Steve Martin, who has lived in Santa Barbara, offered a pal a Willem de Kooning portray in 1991 that marketed just lately for $68.9 million. You could possibly say he has “an eye.” He also scientific studies art history and wrote a wonderful play, “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” (Picasso and Einstein meet up with at a French bar…) He is a enthusiast of 1920s-40s Canadian painters and has donated thousands and thousands to the Huntington to reward the American Selection of Artwork. He is also a former trustee of LACMA.
Tennis star John McEnroe, who commissioned Andy Warhol to create a portrait of him and his spouse (at the time Tatum O’Neal) in 1986 (in the Studio 54 days) has turned back again to art. Mr. McEnroe at present owns a Manhattan-based artwork gallery. His is effective there have sold for additional than $12 million for each canvas.
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