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The Stable Gallery, [1] originally located on West 58th Street in New York City, was founded in 1953 by Eleanor Ward. The Stable Gallery hosted early solo New York exhibitions for artists including Marisol Escobar , Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol .
Andy Warhol (/ ˈ w ɔːr h ɒ l /; [1] born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer.A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century.
Reigning Queens is a 1985 series of silkscreen portraits by American artist Andy Warhol. The screen prints were presented as a portfolio of sixteen; four prints each of the four queens regnant . The subjects were Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands , Queen Ntfombi Twala of ...
The "Reigning Queens" series by Pop Art pioneer Warhol was on display in the gallery before going on sale at the PAN Amsterdam art fair, which runs from November 24 to December 1.
At the beginning of every year since the 1950s, New York's old guard has scurried dutifully to the Park Avenue Armory for a smattering of some of the finest antiques on this side of the Atlantic.
She was a passenger aboard Pan Am Flight 115, a Boeing 707 on a transatlantic flight from Paris to New York City when it dropped from 35,000 to 6,000 feet (10,700 to 1,800 m). It was February 3, 1959, the same day Buddy Holly died in an airplane crash.
The New York University Art Collection, of which the Grey Art Gallery is now guardian, [3] was founded in 1958 with NYU's acquisition of Francis Picabia's Resonateur (c. 1922) and Fritz Glarner's Relational Painting (1949–50).
In 1963, Dalí introduced Dufresne to Andy Warhol at the Saint Regis New York Hotel, [5] and soon she moved into the orbit of his unorthodox studio, "The Factory". [7] In 1964 she selected the stage name "Ultra Violet" at Warhol's suggestion because it was her preferred fashion—her hair color at the time was often violet or lilac. [ 6 ]