Sarasota Antique Buyers

JUNE 5, 2024

The late 19th-century contemporary art movement influences this type of furniture, blending abstract expression with functionality, a testament to the ingenuity of its creators. The concept of minimalism, characterized by simplicity, clean lines, and a focus on functionality, emerged as a defining style during the modern art movement.

Furniture

Grays Antiques

OCTOBER 6, 2018

I buy anything I like that’s handmade and good quality from the last five hundred years. He was an extraordinary figure within British art. He was a Scottish artist of Italian heritage, who lived in Paris, and was established in Chelsea. I am one of the last of the general high quality antique dealers.

Drawings

Art Dealers Association of America

JUNE 21, 2018

©The artist. Since the start of her art-dealing career in the mid-1970s, Rena Bransten has ridden the seismic shifts of San Francisco’s gallery landscape with success and style. While many come to art dealing from a sales background, Bransten established herself as a gallerist from the perspective of an avid art collector.

Ceramics

Art Dealers Association of America

JUNE 20, 2019

Since his first gallery opened in the 1980s, Franklin Parrasch has maintained a dedication to furthering the careers of artists whose work defies any predetermined definitions of media or style and seeks to address existential questions through physical creation. What inspired you to pursue a career in visual art? Photo by Adam Reich.

Maker/Artist

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Well highlight key landmarks in his career while also showcasing essential paintings that helped secure his status as one of the most influential painters of modern art. Wassily Kandinskys Formative Years Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and attended school not for art but rather for economics and law. Ursula (1908).

Paintings

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APRIL 24, 2024

The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Despite this diversity, American folk art does share some core characteristics: Hand-Craftsmanship American folk art typically incorporates materials that can be wrought by hand.

Maker/Artist

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APRIL 24, 2024

The vast American folk art tradition offers authentic, innovative, and captivating creations whose reach spans generations and modes of creative expression. Despite this diversity, American folk art does share some core characteristics: Hand-Craftsmanship American folk art typically incorporates materials that can be wrought by hand.

Maker/Artist

WorthPoint

OCTOBER 4, 2024

At its Canadiana sale on October 12, Miller & Miller Auctions of New Hamburg, Ontario, is offering over 300 lots that include hard-to-find museum-quality pieces like Lot 249 , a rare and exceptional stoneware crock. Throughout his career, Hunt used modern methods and industrial materials to sculpt organic forms.

Antiques and Decorative Arts

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APRIL 14, 2024

Emerging as a reaction to the emotional qualities of Abstract Expressionism in the mid-20th century, Minimalism reduced art to its essential elements, focusing on geometric shapes, flat surfaces, and primary colors. Kelly wanted to eliminate any trace of the artist so that his works were, as he put it, “objects, unsigned, anonymous”.

Maker/Artist

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MARCH 4, 2025

Celebrated as one of the most influential textile artists of the 20th century, Anni Albers redefined the possibilities of weaving and elevated it to a fine art. Items like this were used in a range of wall hangings, including the series of room dividers for her 1949 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Textiles

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Quite the opposite in fact; blending high-quality antique pieces with modern vintage-inspired furniture can add a freshness and durability to the room, while personal touches and soft fabrics create a warm and inviting atmosphere. This was a revelation at the time, and the design retains a timeless quality.

Furniture

The Art Newspaper

JUNE 23, 2025

Sirvins: courtesy Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut Photo: Gloria Etting This book is the result of remarkable, two-pronged research into the life and collection of Douglas Cooper (1911-84) by the biographer Adrian Clark and the art historian Richard Calvocoressi.

Paintings

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APRIL 22, 2025

Celebrated as a defining contributor to Art Deco aesthetics who encapsulated the Roaring Twenties, Tamara de Lempicka stridently created a new image of the modern woman in her portraits. And it was in the French capital that Lempicka was first exposed to the burgeoning modern art scene.

Paintings

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APRIL 28, 2025

What started from the homes and studios of a radical group of artists and designers in 1860s England would prize beauty above all else as they sought to escape the ugliness and materialism of the Industrial Age. For two decades the cult of Aestheticism bloomed with bright ostentation, as artists created a movement dedicated to pure beauty.

Antiques and Decorative Arts

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JUNE 30, 2025

When Barbara Hepworth died in a fire at her St Ives studio in 1975, Britain lost a remarkable artistic voice. The artist who put the hole in modern art and made it her signature helped shape the direction of 20th-century sculpture. St Ives offered Hepworth a haven, but also a community of like-minded artists.

Sculpture