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How to Be an Art Royalty Masterpiece in 2017
Stacy Engman looks to Empress Josephine and Jeff Koons for pointers.
Stacy Engman
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In celebration of the new year, curator Stacy Engman pairs historic tiaras and crowns with renowned works of art to give you visual pointers on how to be an Art Royalty Masterpiece in 2017.
George Condo, Right: George the V’s Imperial State Crown via Wikimedia Commons.
- George Condo’s controversial portrait of Queen Elizabeth, which was dubbed the “Cabbage Patch Queen,” and the British Imperial Jewels.
Left: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Rome Pays Off (1982). Courtesy of artnet Price Database. Right: Danish Royal Crown via Wikimedia Commons.
2. The Danish Royal Crown and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Rome Pays Off.
![Left: AIgrette tiara by Cartier. Courtesy of artnet Price Database. Right: Still from 6[heart]Princess, a video by Takashi Murakami for Shu Uemura via Youtube.](https://news.artnet.com/app/news-upload/2016/12/Screen-Shot-2016-12-31-at-2.38.51-PM.png)
Left: Aigrette tiara by Cartier. Courtesy of artnet Price Database. Right: Still from 6 Heart Princess, a video by Takashi Murakami for Shu Uemura via Youtube.
Left: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (You Are a Very Special Person) (1995). © Barbara Kruger. Courtesy of The Broad. Right: The Imperial Crown of Russia. Photo by Shakko via Wikimedia Commons.
4. Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (You Are a Very Special Person) and Catherine the Great’s royal jewels.
Left: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #216, (1989) © Cindy Sherman Courtesy of artnet Price Database. Right: Empress Josephine of France’s Cameo Tiara via Tiara Mania, the tiara encyclopedia.
5. Cindy Sherman’s untitled self-portrait and Empress Josephine Bonaparte’s cameo tiara worn by Sweden’s Princess Victoria at her wedding.
Left: Chaumet’s Josephine “Aube Printaniere” tiara. Image via Chaumet’s website. Right: Jeff Koons, Antinous-Dionysus, from his Gazing Ball series. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner.
6. A contemporary tiara in Chaumet’s “Josephine” collection and Jeff Koons‘s Antinous-Dionysus, from his Gazing Ball series.
Left: Andy Warhol’s portrait of Queen Beatrix. Courtesy of artnet Price Database. Right: A late Victorian turquoise and diamond tiara. Courtesy of artnet Price Database.
7. Andy Warhol’s portrait of Queen Beatrix and a tiara featuring late Victorian turquoise.
Left: Replica of the tiara made by Van Cleef & Arpels for H.I.H Farah Pahlavi, first Empress of Iran, 1967, Van Cleef & Arpels Collection. Right: Rob Pruitt, Exquisite Self-Portrait: Princess Me (2010).
8. Rob Pruitt’s Exquisite Self-Portrait and the tiara made by Van Cleef & Arpels for the first Empress of Iran.
