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# Andy Warhol Foundation Awards $3.81 Million in Spring 2019 Grants
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/andy-warhol-foundation-awards-3-81-million-in-grants/
- Published: 2019-07-18T22:52:41.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:39:29.000Z
- Description: Plus, the Pérez Art Museum Miami receives $1 million for its Caribbean Cultural Institute, Spain's Museo Nacional del Prado acquires 11 new works, and Penske Media buys Art Market Monitor.
- Author: Eric Vilas-Boas
- Tags: News, Transactions, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:34 (2019, 2020, part 1)

![Andy Warhol, "Self-Portrait" (1964), acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 20 x 16 inches, (image courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2018/11/andy-warhol-1460.gif)

Andy Warhol, “Self-Portrait” (1964), acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, 20 x 16 inches, (image courtesy The Art Institute of Chicago, © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York)

The **Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts** has awarded a total of $3.81 million in grants for its spring 2019 season, announcing the 41 recipients this week. The recipients range from small arts institutions to major museums, each receiving between $60,000 and $120,000\. Ten single exhibitions by artists who were deemed experimental or underrecognized won grant support, while 31 institutions were awarded program support. *ArtForum* has the [full list](https://www.artforum.com/news/warhol-foundation-awards-grants-totaling-3-81-million-80335?ref=hyperallergic.com).

Spain’s [**Museo Nacional del Prado**](https://www.efe.com/efe/espana/cultura/el-prado-amplia-su-obra-moderna-con-zuloaga-y-chicharro-por-una-donacion/10005-4023193?ref=hyperallergic.com) has been gifted 11 works by German businessman Hans Rudolf Gerstenmaier. The paintings are from late 19th and early 20th century artists like **Eduardo Chicarro**, **Joaquín Sorolla**, **Ignacio Zuloaga**, and more, and they will be on display until January 12, 2020 in the museum’s Villanueva building.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2019/07/bundlehouseborderlines4sintmaricotinfinal.jpg)

Nyugen Smith, “Bundlehouse: Borderlines No. 4 (Sint Maricotín)” (2017) (pen, ink, watercolor, thread, colored pencil, acrylic, graphite, gesso, metallic marker, tea, Diaspora soil, and lace on paper. 48 x 54 inches. Courtesy the artist via Pérez Art Museum Miami. Included in The Other Side of Now publication.)

The **Pérez Art Museum Miami** has received a $1 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the museum’s newly formed Caribbean Cultural Institute. The donation is timed with the July 18 opening of *The Other Side of Now: Foresight in Contemporary Caribbean Art* — an exhibition featuring 14 artists from Caribbean region and its diaspora, including **Nyugen Smith, Deborah Anzinger, Charles Campbell, Andrea Chung**, and more.

Houston’s [**Rothko Chapel**](http://www.artnews.com/2019/07/16/rothko-chapel-houston-endowment-grant/?ref=hyperallergic.com), home to 14 paintings by Mark Rothko, has received a grant for $2 million from Houston Endowment in order to fund its renovation plan. The chapel has so far raised $12.5 million as part of its capital campaign.

A [**Sotheby’s**](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/victorian-pre-raphaelite-and-british-impressionist-art?ref=hyperallergic.com) sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite, and British Impressionist Art closed at a total of £1,960,500 (\~$2,456,181). The highest sale in the lots: **James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot**‘s “Room Overlooking the Harbour” (ca. 1879) which went for £495,00 (\~$620,152).

The [**Sotheby’s**](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/19th-20th-century-sculpture?ref=hyperallergic.com) sale of 19th and 20th Century Sculpture netted a total of £2,162,250 (\~$2,708,940). The highest lot of the bunch wound up being **Raffaello Bartoletti’s** life-sized rendition of a female nude worshipper of the god Bacchus, “[Bacchante](https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2019/19th-20th-century-sculpture/raffaello-bartoletti-bacchante?ref=hyperallergic.com),” which sold for £287,500 (\~$360,189).

The [**Christie’s**](https://www.christies.com/british-and-european-art-28098.aspx?lid=1&dt=180720190621&saletitle=&ref=hyperallergic.com) sale of Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art netted a whopping £7,189,625 (\~$9,007,406) in sales. The top of the ticket: **Sir Alfred James Munnings’s** “The Bramham Moor Hounds at Weeton Whin” which sold for £2,171,250 (\~$2,720,215) — over four times the price of the next highest lot, **Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones’s** “Astrologia.”

The [**Christie’s**](https://www.christies.com/british-and-european-art-28100.aspx?lid=1&dt=180720190621&saletitle=&ref=hyperallergic.com) sale of European Art rounded out at £2,117,750 (\~$2,653,189), and its top lot was **Julio Romero de Torres’s** “The Slave” (ca. 1925-1929) which sold for 299,250 (\~$374,910).

The publishing company **Penske Media Corporation**, which already owned *ARTnews* and *Art in America*, has bought [***Art Market Monitor***](https://www.artmarketmonitor.com/2019/07/12/art-market-monitor-joins-penske-media-corporation/?ref=hyperallergic.com), the subscription publication known for its “Artelligence” podcast and analysis of the art market*.* Penske is known for its ownership of niche trade publications like *Variety, Deadline Hollywood*, as well as its ownership of *Rolling Stone*.