Browsing Tag Betye Saar

April 26, 2021

Auction Brings $3.9 Million – Second-Highest Grossing Sale in Department Thirteen-Year History Our spring offering of African American Art on April 22, 2021 was the second…

April 19, 2021

Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Vanessa German, Bisa Butler, and Dindga McCannon are assemblage artists that apply found items and fabrics that previously held different uses or…

February 26, 2019

Rare Book Week kicks off March 5 in NYC. We gathered a selection of our favorite events happening throughout the week, as well as several not-to-be-missed exhibitions. See you…

August 1, 2017

Nigel Freeman, founder and director of our African-American Fine Art department, is in London this week visiting some familiar images. Two of the works in the Tate Modern’s…

March 28, 2017

From the catalogue of our April 6 sale of African-American Fine Art.     Assemblage emerged as a dynamic new art form in Los Angeles in the late 1960s. The aesthetic was…