Author: Chelsea Art Group Art Specialists in New York City

Claes Oldenburg, in full Claes Thure Oldenburg, (born Jan. 28, 1929, Stockholm, Sweden), Swedish-born American Pop-art sculptor, best known for his giant soft sculptures of everyday objects. Much of Oldenburg’s early life was spent in the United States, Sweden, and Norway, a result of moves his father made as a Swedish consular official. He...

Tracey Emin is a British artist known for her poignant works that mine autobiographical details through a variety of media including painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, and neon text.  She is a prominent member of the Young British Artists who rose to fame in the late 1980s. Emin’s seminal works Everyone I...

Jeweler PrintmakerFurniture Designer SculptorPhilosopher Starting out as a painting student but soon being asked to reopen the metal workshop in 1939, Bertoia taught jewelry design and metal work. Later, as the war effort made metal a rare and very expensive commodity he began to focus his efforts on jewelry making,...

Willem de Kooning If Jackson Pollock was the public face of the New York avant-garde, Willem de Kooning could be described as an artist’s artist, who was perceived by many of his peers as its leader. He was born in Rotterdam, where he grew up in an impoverished household and...

Antoni Tàpies (pronounced TAH-pee-ess) once said, “My first works of 1945 already had something of the graffiti of the streets and a whole world of protest — repressed, clandestine, but full of life — a life which was also found on the walls of my country.” Born in Barcelona, Tàpies came...

Building an art collection is an art in itself, one that Chelsea Art Group founder Don Christiansen has forged into a globe-spanning career. He explains how he quit the car trade after 15 years to pursue his passion, and reveals the nuances of sourcing rare artworks from around the world....

Donald K. Sultan is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, particularly well-known for large-scale still life paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections...

John Beerman is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1958. Their work was featured in several exhibitions at key galleries and museums, including the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. John Beerman's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $20 USD to...