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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 .
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 ...
Lisette Model was born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern [8] [9] in the family home in the 8th district of Vienna, Austria-Hungary. [3] Her father, Victor, was an Italian/Austrian doctor of Jewish descent attached to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Army and, later, to the International Red Cross; her mother Felicie was French and Catholic, and Model was baptised into her mother's faith.
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.
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.
New York City, New York, U.S. The photo of her body, taken by Robert Wiles, was published in Life magazine. [ 1 ] It has been compared to the photograph by Malcolm Browne of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức , who burned himself alive at a busy Saigon road intersection in 1963; both are widely regarded as ...
Klaus Nomi performs in a campy costume with massive shoulder pads at Hurrah nightclub in New York City in 1979. Excerpted from Dustin Pittman: New York After Dark by Mauricio Padilha & Roger ...
The American Art Association (AAA) was founded by James F. Sutton (President of AAA), R. Austin Robertson, and Thomas Kirby (1846–1924) in 1883. [4] Thomas Kirby had grown up in Philadelphia and moved his family to New York in 1876, in the years prior to starting the AAA, he worked at various auction firms and importers in New York. [5]