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“An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.”
Maya Lin
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982
National Mall, Washington D.C.
Sponsor: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Architect of Record: Cooper-Lecky Partnership
Landscape Architect: Henry Arnold
Photography: Terry Adams, Mark Segal, Victoria Sambunaris, Wendy Watriss
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“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”
Jackson Pollock
Number 16
1949
oil and enamel on paper mounted on masonite
30¾ x 22¼ in.
Price realised
USD 32,645,000
777245839468953600
Estimated Representation of Asian Artists in Art History Books
Pre-20th Century (Before 1900s)
- Western art history books: Less than 2%
- Global art history books: 10–15% (including Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Persian art)
20th Century (1900–1999)
- Western-focused books: 3–5%
- More globally aware books: 15–20%
- Asian artists became more recognized in the contemporary period, especially post-1950s.
21st Century (2000–Present)
- Traditional Western art books: 5–10%
- Contemporary/global art books: 20–30%
- With globalization, more Asian artists are included, particularly from China, Japan, Korea, and India.
Overall Estimate (From Past to Present)
- Western-centric books: ~3–5% Asian artists across all periods.
- Global/inclusive books: ~15–20%, rising in recent years.
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“A painting is not a picture of an experience, but is the experience.”
Mark Rothko
No. 10
1958
oil on canvas
94 ¼ x 69 ¼ in.
Price realised
USD 81,925,000
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Who Killed King Ananda?
Source: https://on.wsj.com/3csjeu3
On 9 June 1946, the king was found shot dead in his bedroom in the Boromphiman Throne Hall (a modern residential palace located in the Grand Palace).
An initial radio announcement on 9 June surmised that the king was accidentally killed while toying with his pistol.
Soon after the death, the Democrat Party spread rumours that left-wing prime minister Pridi Banomyong was behind the death.
The investigation provided the fact that he died with a bullet wound in his forehead. It was proved that it was not an accident and not a suicide. One doesn’t know. … But what happened is very mysterious, because immediately much of the evidence was just shifted. And because it was political, so everyone was political, even the police were political, [it was] not very clear.
Who Owns a Country? Series: King Ananda Mahidol (พระบาทสมเด็จพระปรเมนทรมหาอานันทมหิดล 20 September 1925 – 9 June 1946)
2021
Watercolor on #claybord wood panel
12 x 16 in.
Price: Not for Sale
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“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.”
Helen Frankenthaler
Elberta
1975
acrylic on canvas
79 x 97 in.
Price realised
USD 4,285,000
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“I am primarily painting from photographs these days (from illustrated magazines but also from family photos), in a sense this is a stylistic problem, the form is naturalistic, even though the photograph is not nature at all but a prefabricated product (the “second-hand world” in which we live), I do not have to intervene artistically with style, since the stylization (deformation in form and color) contributes only under very particular circumstances toward clarifying and intensifying an object or a subject (generally stylization becomes the central problem which obscures everything else (object, subject), it leads to an unmotivated artificiality, an untouchable formalist taboo.”
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild
signed, inscribed and dated ‘809-4 Richter 1994’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
88 5⁄8 x 78 3⁄4 in. (225 x 200 cm.)
Painted in 1994.
Price realised
USD 38,175,000