Sentence examples for swap paintings from inspiring English sources

Outside he was able to swap paintings for drugs with dealers - "generally they went for psychedelic stuff".

World-class institutions like the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum in New York used to swap paintings at no cost but now charge fees and prospect more aggressively for alliances with foreign museums.

He emulated the chiaroscuro effects he saw in Leonardo's drawings, combining them with a pastel palette and soft, atmospheric modelling that defined Venetian Renaissance painting in the years that followed.For the inner circle of cultivated Venetian collectors who bought, sold and swapped his paintings, interpreting the meaning of Giorgione's works became a rarefied game.

IN MARCH 1850 Antoine Wiertz, an artist, wrote to the newish Belgian government offering a swap: his largest paintings in exchange for the construction of a "huge, comfortable and well-lit" studio.

Ingleby Gallery, to 21 Mar RC Artist Doug Fishbone has commissioned a Chinese studio that churns out Old Master copies for £120 a pop to replicate one of the Dulwich Picture Gallery's paintings, and swapped the original for the 21st-century fake.

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He claimed that he scored his first artistic coup as a teen-ager, by copying paintings in his father's collection and swapping the fakes for the originals, which he sold.

Just as no law forbids the sale of bundled credit-default swaps on bundled subprime mortgages, no agreed-on aesthetic principle invalidates paintings that are churned out by proxy and then bid up at auction as fungible commodities.

Peter Doig swapped one of his own pictures for one of Ofili's dung paintings, which he still owns.

First there was David Hockney swapping glam west coast US for east coast UK, and his acclaimed paintings of what I'd thought of as an unremarkable landscape being shown at the Royal Academy.

Paintings, paintings everywhere.