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AUGUST 21, 2024

Sold for $18,718,500 via Sotheby’s (November 2023). Sold for $8,492,400 via Sotheby’s (November 2023). This is even evident in day-to-day items, as companies like Muji and Apple have incorporated Zen principles of simplicity, functionality, and minimalism into their designs. Agnes Martin – Grey Stone II.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Typified by clean lines and functional aesthetics, the movement would have an enduring impact on design, architecture, and the contemporary art of the Minimalism and Bauhaus movements. The austere abstract art strived to be free from artistic tradition, devoid of any amotion, and relevant to its audience in a rapidly changing world.

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MAY 13, 2024

Sold for $441,000 USD via Christie’s (December 2023). One of Dunand’s most exceptional creations is his Radio Cabinet , which married his capacities in lacquer (learned from famed Japanese artist Seizo Sugawara) with his abilities to use the forms and lines so indicative of Art Deco design. Frankl (1886-1958) Paul T.

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JUNE 24, 2024

Troika was born into a time of artistic flourish within the southwest, fresh off the back of the St Ives School – a British postwar art movement taking root in the small, coastal town. A beacon for abstract artists, the scene had been set for creative innovation on a different level, with new approaches and ideas coming to the fore.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

From Pablo Picasso to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, douard Manet, Henri Matisse, and Edgar Degas, the stage has both inspired and been shaped by some of historys greatest artists. Sold for$3,500 via DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers (April 2023). Marc Chagall – Le cirque au clown jaune. Sold forCHF 425 via TGP Auction (June 2021).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Imbued with profound symbolism and great significance in Japanese culture, Samurai armor and weaponry transcend their function as tools of war. Equipped with the same functionality, Samurai armor married practicality with delicate artistry developed over the course of many centuries. JAPANESE SAMURAI GOHONHIGO YUMI BOW & ARROWS.

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APRIL 5, 2024

Post-Industrial Revolution, the Bauhaus movement embraced both the ideas of mass production and streamlined functionality. One savvy buyer purchased a fabulous pair of Marcel Breuer-designed Laccio side tables (reissued by Knoll) for just $500 in 2023.

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AUGUST 19, 2024

Sold for $5,000 USD via Eternity Gallery (February 2023). Sold for $2,200 USD via Eternity Gallery (September 2023). Auction Passed (Est: €7,000 EUR – €7,500 EUR) via Setdart Auction House (November 2023). Cucuteni Terracotta Venus, 2750-5500 BC, Eastern Europe. Specifically, these statues sought to: Rare 17th c.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 20, 2025

The poet Paul Éluard, who hid at the remote Saint-Alban asylum along with his wife and son, was joined by Tristan Tzara and other “real” artists. The book’s format—an exhibition catalogue with essays of varying lengths—never gives a clear reason why Saint-Alban still functioned throughout the war.

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JUNE 12, 2025

When Picasso purchased the Château de Vauvenargues, he famously told his Parisian dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, that he’d bought “Cezanne’s Sainte-Victoire”—not a painting by the artist he called “my only master”, but a bit of the actual rock. In 2023, fragments of a mural were discovered in the Grand Salon.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

Societal shifts, combined with technological advances in mechanical reproduction, left some artists and designers to lament the loss of the artful hand-craftsmanship that had guided design for previous generations. These ideas were soon absorbed by American makers to great excitement. Sold for $500 USD via Hindman (November 2023).

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APRIL 24, 2024

From self-taught artists to delightful wood carvings and intricate quilting and textile makers, American folk art encapsulates the spirit of a nation and the legacies handed down across its history. Beyond wood and clay, some folk artists rely on natural dyes for their wool or thread. Sold for $431.25 USD via Jeffrey S.

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APRIL 24, 2024

From self-taught artists to delightful wood carvings and intricate quilting and textile makers, American folk art encapsulates the spirit of a nation and the legacies handed down across its history. Beyond wood and clay, some folk artists rely on natural dyes for their wool or thread. Sold for $431.25 USD via Jeffrey S.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

Their functional simplicity gave carvers unlimited freedom to use their imaginations when making these pieces, and as such, the styles, subjects, and materials used differ widely, making them highly collectible. Over his career, the celebrated Chicago artist won multiple prizes. Eldred’s, estimate: $4,000-$6,000.

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JUNE 16, 2025

When you think of artists who changed the course of 20th-century art, Robert Rauschenberg stands out not just for his revolutionary ideas, but for his fearless exploration of materials, media, and meaning. Like so many men born in the 1920s, he served in World War II before pursuing his artistic philosophy.

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MAY 29, 2024

Sold for £70 GBP via Hannam’s Auctioneers (Aug 2023). Or doing away with function entirely, a Victorian monkey head wearing a fez? This blending of the exotic and unusual with utilitarian furniture and objet d’art was common place in the Victorian era. A mythical sabre tooth seal ink well anyone?

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JUNE 25, 2025

On Saturday (28 June), the Lower East Side gallery Olympia will welcome guests to CAKE , a one-night display—and feast—of desserts donated by dozens of New York-based artists, among them Hannah Beerman, Mie Yim, Wells Chandler, Robin F. Melissa Joseph, the Uovo Prize-winning Brooklyn-based artist, will also mark her Olympia debut in CAKE.

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The Art Newspaper

JUNE 12, 2025

The foundation's chief curator, Raina Lampkins-Fielder, will select the artists for the sector. The fair will also include a new sector, Function, highlighting artists working with (and sometimes against) the principles of design. Frieze purchased both The Armory Show and Expo Chicago fairs in 2023.)

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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. Sold for$6,500 via Swann Auction Galleries (June 2023). Anni Albers – GR I screenprint. Bauhaus and Black Mountain Anni Albers, “With Verticals,” ca.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

Collectors today avidly seek them out for their combined functionality and splendid artistry. This bicolor gold and sapphire tasseled pill box by the Italian luxury brand sold at auction in 2023 for $3,150. This blue and white piece decorated with a dragon from the Kangxi Period sold in 2023 for $1,136.

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APRIL 22, 2025

With their ornate bodies and fancy stylized arms that tentacle out like some sort of beautiful sea creature, epergnes are functional objets dart that demand the spotlight. Though expensive silver epergnes were still made during this era , the Gorham Corporation was the best-known American maker, producing exceptional silver designs.

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MARCH 31, 2025

From its striking patina to its weighty presence, bronze conveys both powerful presence and artistic mastery. These works, which have endured over the ages and have been cast for reasons from royal to religious to revolutionary, continue to captivate contemporary artists and collectors. Statue of Marco Aurelio Musei Capitolini.

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MARCH 19, 2025

Emphasizing simplicity, clean lines, and the use of modern materials, the International Style was not only one of the most influential movements in modern architecture and design, but its aesthetic was also mirrored by revolutionary artists. Sold for$1,875,000 via Sotheby’s (November 2023). Space and light and order.

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MAY 28, 2025

SILVER SERVERS Designed to be both functional and aesthetically pleasing, asparagus servers symbolized class and manners. in the desired Olympian pattern, sold for $1,600 in 2023. Also developed were smaller individual tongs for each diner to serve their own portions of asparagus.

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JANUARY 15, 2025

Mass production and a growing population working in new factories had begun to replace rural living and traditional crafts, so in response, artists and designers questioned this mechanized progress and sought a return to the pure values of the past by creating a new handcrafted aesthetic. MONUMENTAL FRENCH GOTHIC REVIVAL CARVED BOOKCASE.

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APRIL 9, 2025

The leather and steel deconstructed club chair looked like an abstract piece of art that had its roots in the Bauhaus principle of form and function, but then again Martins chair had a reclining feature, so 1961 Ebony Model M Steinway Piano. Sold for$225 via Auctions at Showplace (April 2023). Vincent Van Gogh Reference Books.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Discovering the Bauhaus Gropius’s idea was to bridge the gap between craftsmanship and the fine arts, and the Bauhaus taught students both theory and applied crafts, so that pupils were capable of creating objects that were both functional and aesthetically pleasing. Sold for $6,500 USD via Swann Auction Galleries (June 2023).

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MARCH 20, 2025

He expressed his remarkable artistic skill across various media but was best known for his textile designs. Burne-Jones in turn introduced Morris to his social network, including Dante Gabriele Rossetti who along with his artistic associates had introduced England to Pre-Raphaelite painting in 1849. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

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JUNE 19, 2025

Is there even room for ordinary people who would like a nicer, cleaner, more functional place to live—where most people could not even name the president? Beyond that, athletes, artists, DJs and actors have to go through the usual channels. The answer is not straightforward: it depends who you are, and where you are coming from.

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APRIL 14, 2025

Whether your knowledge of modernist design movements is comprehensive or relatively rookie, Bauhaus is the name synonymous with influence, accessibility and functionality. The founder of this artistic hive mind? Sold for 850,000 GBP via Bonhams (October 2023). Portrait of Walter Gropius in 1919.

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JUNE 2, 2025

WorthPoints Price Guide shows that over the past three years, Victorian bird dioramas have sold between $75 and $2,550 for a piece with eight birds, including a cockatoo, that sold in 2023. In addition to their functionality, powder horns were also a way for people to show off artistic talent. Newcomb Regt. in Virginia.

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