Posts tagged art
The Artist's Discipline

The title of Public Sale’s upcoming auction, Disciplined, refers to the artist’s focused study—in both the sense of the field, medium, or branch of artistic production in which an artist specializes, as well the self-managed conduct and rules by which an artist structures their practice.

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Silhouettes: Collections of a Collection

Public Sale’s upcoming auction Standing Still features an incredible lifetime collection of silhouettes, that  iconic style of paper illustration which became popular in the United States in the 19th-Century and democratized portraiture long before the advent of photography.

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Mihail Chemiakin’s Metal Slag and the Residue of Art

Public Sale’s upcoming auction includes fifty-two lots of hardened metal slag, in both individual pieces and assemblages, in a range of sizes, each of them unique in shape and composition. They come from the studio of artist Mihail Chemiakin (b.1943), Russian artist and controversial figure in the underground art scene of the Soviet Union, who for many years maintained a studio near Hudson.

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