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Acquavella Galleries

His international clientele included top museums and collectors like Henry Ford II, Paul Mellon, and Walter H. Annenberg.

Albert Anker

One of Anker's greatest admirers and collectors is former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher, since the 1980s Switzerland's most influential conservative politician, who also published an apologetic essay on Anker.

Baku Museum of Modern Art

There are also non-Azerbaijani modern masterworks by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall from private collectors.

Bridget Holmes

Lloyd, Christopher, The Queen's Pictures, Royal Collectors through the centuries, National Gallery Publications, 1991, ISBN 0947645896

Brigid Tunney

In 1952, when her son Paddy was contacted by Seán O Boyle and Peter Kennedy regarding being recorded for the BBC, he persuaded the folk collectors to travel to his home district of Mulleek in north-west Fermanagh where, over two days, he arranged to have as many of the local musicians and singers as possible lined up and ready to go.

Candida Höfer

Major private collectors include United States Senator Thomas Eagleton.

Catalan Romanesque Churches of the Vall de Boí

Between 1905 and 1909 the Board of the Museums of Barcelona printed faithful reproductions of these Pyrenean frescoes, and the publication of these works unleashed a desire for their acquisition by museums and private collectors.

Choiseul Pigeon

The Choiseul Pigeon was not searched for again until briefly in 1927 and again in October 1929, when five veteran collectors belonging to the Whitney South Seas Expedition dedicated three months to searching for the pigeon in multiple locations across Choiseul without success.

Daniel Enkaoua

One of his paintings, an image of a young girl, forms the centrepiece for a celebrated private gallery and house designed by Paul de Ruiter for the art collectors Cees Röling and Saar Sparnaay in the Dutch town of Rhenen.

Diospyros clementium

The tree is named for American husband-and-wife plant collectors Joseph Clemens and Mary Strong Clemens.

Dixon, New Mexico

About two miles (3 km) north of the town on NM Highway 75 rock and mineral collectors can visit the Harding Mine, a pegmatite mine donated to the University of New Mexico by Dr. Arthur Montgomery.

Dudley Carleton, 1st Viscount Dorchester

He exchanged marbles for paintings with Rubens, served as an intermediary for collectors like Lord Somerset, Lord Pembroke, Lord Buckingham and sent Lord Arundel paintings by Daniel Mytens and Gerard van Honthorst.

Erik Niedling

It consist of interviews with contemporary artists, critics, and collectors such as Olafur Eliasson, Harald Falckenberg, Damien Hirst, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Marina Abramović, Olaf Breuning, Terence Koh, Genesis P-Orridge, Boris Groys, and Tobias Rehberger.

Fantastic Art Centre

# To establish a network of artists, collectors, art dealers, museums, publishers, etc. in order to promote all aspects of fantastic/surreal/visionary art.

For Collectors Only

For Collectors Only is a now out-of-print two-disc set released by Collectables Records in 1992.

Fuji Rabbit

Fuji Rabbits have been featured in Japanese animated series such as FLCL and Paranoia Agent and are a favourite amongst collectors of scooters and motorcycles in Japan.

George A. Lucas

He lived there on an annuity from his father’s estate and worked as an agent for art collectors and dealers in the United States such as Samuel Putnam Avery, John Taylor Johnston, Cyrus Lawrence, William Henry Vanderbilt, and Henry Field.

Grillo Demo

Kate Moss, Madonna and Elle Macpherson are collectors of his work, he's best friend is Alica Demonte from Rafaela

HappySad Records

Its major release, Twice Upon a Rhyme, was rediscovered and described thirty years later, in July 2002, in Japan's Record Collectors Magazine as "human mystical pop music".

Helen Hall

A former Vice-President at Christie's, Helen now works with private collectors, auction houses, museums and institutions all over the world to research, appraise, authenticate and value iconic objects, manuscripts, clothing and instruments in the history of Popular Culture.

Hilary Simon

One of her more notable paintings, Rice Fields, was used in 2007 as a limited edition collectors cover for One Hundred Years of Solitude by the Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez.

Joanne Mitchelson

Joannes paintings can be found with many astute private collectors as well as in the Tasmanian Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in Launceston as well as in the Artists Garret in Deloraine, Tasmania,the Tasmanian Design Centre in Launceston and the Ulverstone Civic Centre

John Bagford

Originally a shoemaker by trade, he was active on the book-trading market from 1680 in and around Holborn, travelling to Haarlem, Leiden, and Amsterdam on this business and aiding such collectors as John Moore, Robert and Edward Harley, Sir Hans Sloane, Samuel Pepys and John Woodward.

Linda St. Clair

Collectors include Walt Disney Corporation President Michael Mendenhall, Bill Marriot of Marriot Hotels and Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming.

Lusail Iconic Stadium

Parking and service areas are shaded by canopies of solar collectors, which will produce energy for the stadium when it is in use, as well as generating power for neighbouring buildings.

Mac Yasuda

He started off running an English language school in Kobe, Japan, in the 1970s and eventually became one of the largest vintage guitar dealers/collectors in the United States and an executive in the organization of Akira Tsumura, the heir to the Japanese Tsumura Corporation built on their bath salt "basukurin" which is a household name over there and who was disgraced in an abuse of corporate office scandal in 1997.

Memphis, Egypt

Much of what was found would fall into the hands of major European collectors travelling the country on behalf of the great museums of London, Paris, Berlin, and Turin.

Nora Chapa Mendoza

Among her collectors are such notables as Detroit's former Mayor Dennis Archer, singer Aretha Franklin, actor Edward James Olmos, and the former president of General Motors Mr. Jack Smith.

Okumura Masanobu

Though less known to the public than masters such as Sharaku and Hokusai, Masanobu has gained the regard of connoisseurs as one of the greatest ukiyo-e artists, held in esteem by Japanese collectors such as Kiyoshi Shibui and Seiichirō Takahashi, and Westerners such as Ernest Fenollosa, Arthur Davison Ficke, and James A. Michener.

Oldfield Thomas

In 1891 Thomas married Mary Kane, daughter of Sir Andrew Clark, heiress to a small fortune, which gave him the finances to hire mammal collectors and present their specimens to the museum.

Philippe Bourguignon

Philippe sits the Boards of Zipcar, a car sharing company (USA); Vinfolio, serving wine-enthusiasts and collectors worldwide (USA) Informed Judgment (Geneva, Switzerland) and Palais de Tokyo, a center for Contemporary Art in Paris, France.

Private Eye books

In particular, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, the exploits of an uncouth Australian expatriate in Sixties London, written by Barry Humphries and illustrated by Nicholas Garland, was published in three collections, long since out of print and now collectors' items.

Ptisana salicina

Another serious threat comes from plant collectors who are said to have wiped out several large populations in the Kawhia district.

R. C. Gorman

His famous friends and collectors of his work included Elizabeth Taylor, Danny DeVito, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barry Goldwater, Gregory Peck, Erma Bombeck, Lee Marvin, Jackie Onassis and fellow artist Andy Warhol, who silk-screened a portrait of Gorman that hung in a hall of his home surrounded by photos of Gorman's celebrity and other personal friends.

Rinjani Scops Owl

Seven specimens of the owl were obtained from May to July in 1896 by British naturalist Alfred Everett, who also used paid local collectors.

River continuum concept

In the upper reaches of a river, shredders and collectors make up a large percentage of total macroinvertebrates due to the excess presence of coarse plant matter.

Robert Blue

Collectors of Blue's art have included Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand and Hugh Hefner, as well as numerous corporate collectors, including the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, and the Atlanta Hilton Motel.

Rose Art Museum

Sam Hunter, the first director of the Rose Art Museum, came to Brandeis from the Museum of Modern Art, and with a small grant of $50,000 from collectors Leon Mnuchin and his wife, Harriet Gevirtz-Mnuchin, launched a collection with iconic works by Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol, Willem de Kooning and several others—21 works with a ceiling of $5,000 for any one piece bought with the grant.

Russian icons

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, many Russian icons have been repatriated via direct purchase by Russian museums, private Russian collectors, or as was the case of Pope John Paul II giving an 18th-century copy of the famous Our Lady of Kazan icon to the Russian Orthodox Church, returned to Russia in good faith.

Scripophily

Many autograph collectors are found in this field, looking for signed certificates from John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil Company, Henry Charles Carey of the Franklin Fire Insurance Company, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Atari Corporation, Eddie Rickenbacker as president of Eastern Air Lines, Tucker Corporation and many others.

Stavangerflint

Signed works by Turi Gramstad Oliver, Kari Nyquist, Gro Pedersen Claussen, Anne Lofthus and Inger Waage are among those who have created great interest among collectors, both national and international.

The Japanese Art Society of America

While the Society now addresses all aspects of Japanese art and culture, it traces its origins to a small group of ukiyo-e print collectors in and around New York City in 1973, at a time when Parke-Bernet Galleries (later to merge with Sotheby's) had begun to develop a market for Japanese art.

His collection included masterpieces by Harunobu, Utamaro, Sharaku and Hokusai, and the sale attracted many of the great collectors and dealers of the era, including Richard Pillsbury Gale (1900–1973) in Minnesota, Felix Tikotin (1893–1986), a dealer living in Switzerland, and Nishi Saiju (1927–1995), the first Japanese dealer to attend a sale in the United States.

Valerius and Rufinus

Their legend states that they were imperial tax collectors in Soissons who were pious Christians.

Vali Myers

Her work was held in the Stuyvesant collection in the Netherlands, New York's Hurryman Collection, and is owned by private collectors such as George Plimpton and Mick Jagger.

Virectaria

Most collectors report that decocted leaves are for healing wounds, which is reflected in the Mahi vernacular name "Kalyabirondo", signifying "that which eats wounds".

Will Ashton

He advised the National Gallery of South Australia and private collectors, and supported his family by examining for the Royal Drawing Society of which he was a member.

Xinjiang coins

The red cash of Xinjiang are quite popular among Chinese collectors for their abundance of unusual types, and for their connection to the "Silk Road" and "Western Regions" history/mythology.


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