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Today, we making HISTORY - African Art aligns itself and it's influence of all things Modern thanks to the Joe Pollitt Collection being presented at Lots Road, Chelsea, London this coming weekend. The Auction comes up on Sunday but regardless of the outcome we are witnesses to a shift in global thinking about Africa, Art and Modernity. Comment from Joe Pollitt "I have, for the longest time, wanted to achieve this in my lifetime, to make that connection of European Modernity and the importance and influence of Africa and with the assistance of Bob Hayton at Lots Road Auction we have achieved the impossible. .This Sale will go down in the history of African Art and will certainly be the Best Tribal Art Sale of all time." Lots Road Auctions, CHELSEA, This Sunday. Lots Road Auctioneers Sunday 21st June 2015 12pm until 3pm View Larger Map 71 Lots Road Auctions, Chelsea, London, SW10 0RN. Tel: +44 (0)20 7376 6800 Fax: +44 (0)20 7376 6899 Email: info@lotsroad.com Website: Lots R...

  After watching the Egyptians let us move into our present Modern with Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele Contributions by Alessandra Comini, James T. Demetrion, Johannes Dobai, and Thomas M. Messer Published in 1965 124 pages Softcover This publication brings together the work of two Austrian artists—Gustav Klimt and his former student Egon Schiele. Although independent in their style and depiction of their subject, common threads are manifest in the oeuvre of both artists. The two share a certain anxiety and preoccupation with the erotic, yet stylistically Klimt's work is formally ordered and decorative while Schiele's work is unforgiving in its brutality. This exhibition focuses specifically on the output produced late within Klimt's career, while approaching Schiele's work from a retrospective standpoint. The catalogue discusses each artist separately and includes a chronology, essay, and an illustrated exhibiti...