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Watch the film on Instagram The sculptor's hand begins not with subtraction but with revelation. Amedeo Modigliani approached limestone as though the form already existed within…
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Phillips
Turquoise, royal blue, sea-green and fuchsia ripple across canvas like the iridescent plumage of a male peacock, each colour moving into the next with the fluency…
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The American painter Lois Dodd has spent a lifetime rendering what others might overlook: the precise geometry of a window frame, the quality of light caught…
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Phillips
Carved from a single block of limestone between 1911 and 1912, Tête holds Amedeo Modigliani at his most resolute as a sculptor. The work belongs to…
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Frank Stella's Port Tampa City, painted in 1963, arrives at Phillips in New York on 17 November as one of the defining statements of early Minimalism,…
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A subway artist's graphic vocabulary collides with Renaissance mastery in Keith Haring's Untitled of 1988, a work that interrogates the very categories we use to understand…
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The mobile holds motion suspended in time: curves and counterweights calibrated to respond to the gentlest disturbance of air, each element orbiting the others in perpetual,…
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The vocabulary of modern living was written by a handful of restless minds who refused to accept the boundaries between art, craft and utility. Ettore Sottsass…
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The upward tilt of a face, caught between stillness and contemplation. A delicate gold cross, glinting against skin rendered in the softest ochres and shadows. This…
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A journey through the Parisian quarter that shaped Amedeo Modigliani's most extraordinary works reveals the spiritual essence behind his revolutionary sculptural practice.
Read the story →The most recent story is Modigliani’s ‘Tête’ Returns to the Market: A Limestone Manifesto of Early Modernism, published on 11 November 2026.
Recent stories include Helen Frankenthaler’s Peacock Alley: A New York Love Letter in Luminous Colour; Lois Dodd’s Windows: Thresholds Between Worlds; Modigliani’s Carved Stone Testament to Love and Egypt; Frank Stella’s Port Tampa City Comes to Auction at Phillips.
Phillips appears in Art.
Simply Luxury has published 40 stories about Phillips, all collected on this page and updated as new launches are announced.
The auction house founded in London in 1796, with head offices in London and New York, celebrated for its sales of contemporary art, design and important watches.
Our most recent Phillips story is Modigliani’s ‘Tête’ Returns to the Market: A Limestone Manifesto of Early Modernism, published on 11 November 2026. Watch the film on Instagram The sculptor's hand begins not with subtraction but with revelation. Amedeo Modigliani approached limestone as though the form already existed within it, waiting to be released. His...
Simply Luxury has published 40 stories on Phillips, including: Modigliani’s ‘Tête’ Returns to the Market: A Limestone Manifesto of Early Modernism; Helen Frankenthaler’s Peacock Alley: A New York Love Letter in Luminous Colour; Lois Dodd’s Windows: Thresholds Between Worlds; Modigliani’s Carved Stone Testament to Love and Egypt.
Our Phillips stories appear in Art, and every one is gathered on this page.
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