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’s controversial portrait of Queen Elizabeth, which was dubbed the “Cabbage Patch Queen,” and the British Imperial Jewels.
2. The Danish Royal Crown and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Rome Pays Off.
3. Takashi Murakami’s video 6 Heart Princess and Cartier’s aigrette tiara (popular in the 1890s, the aigrette tiara was sometimes topped with feathers).
4. Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (You Are a Very Special Person) and Catherine the Great’s royal jewels.
5. Cindy Sherman’s untitled self-portrait and Empress Josephine Bonaparte’s cameo tiara worn by Sweden’s Princess Victoria at her wedding.
6. A contemporary tiara in Chaumet’s “Josephine” collection and Jeff Koons‘s Antinous-Dionysus, from his Gazing Ball series.
7. Andy Warhol’s portrait of Queen Beatrix and a tiara featuring late Victorian turquoise.
8. Rob Pruitt’s Exquisite Self-Portrait and the tiara made by Van Cleef & Arpels for the first Empress of Iran.
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