Pimlico Wilde Contemporary Art
Helping collectors build exciting collections
From the terrace of her Napa Valley home, Marisa Kenning can look out across rows of grapevines and, in the same eyeline, a sprawling Kenneth Noland target painting framed by floor-to-ceiling glass. The pairing feels deliberate, land and canvas mirroring each other in geometry, rhythm, and light. Kenning’s collection began with a single Helen Frankenthaler … Read more
On the top floor of a converted clock factory in Harpenden, time is measured not in hours but in moments of light. Here, Thomas Whitcomb, one of the world’s foremost private collectors of early photographic experiments and proto-cinematic devices, has created a sanctuary for the earliest attempts to capture motion and stillness. Whitcomb’s collection is … Read more
In a quiet, book-lined flat overlooking Istanbul’s Bosphorus, the air is filled with a sense of deliberate grace. Along the walls, sweeping curves of Persian nastaliq script merge with bold, gestural mark-making. Some pieces are centuries old, delicate folios on handmade paper, their ink still resonant after 400 years. Others are vast canvases splashed with … Read more
Celeste Marlowe’s townhouse in New York’s West Village is a world atlas told through photographs. Step inside, and you’re met with the quiet geometry of Candida Höfer’s architectural interiors, the saturated humanity of Steve McCurry’s portraits, and,occupying pride of place in her dining room,a vivid triptych from Oboe Ngua’s acclaimed Bins of the World series. … Read more
In a sun-drenched townhouse in Mumbai’s Colaba district, Amara Singh moves between rooms filled with colour, texture, and history. A striking Murano glass chandelier hangs above a corner dedicated to contemporary Indian painters, while an adjacent space showcases rare 18th-century South Asian miniatures framed alongside avant-garde installations. For Singh, collecting is never about uniformity,it is … Read more
By Martin Elswyth, Curator Emeritus at Berkeley Centre for the Arts, Ravenscroft In the long arc of art history, cutting-edge artists have needed collectors to join them in the avant-garde. The Medici did not simply acquire pigment and panel; they purchased the future. Peggy Guggenheim did not merely accumulate canvases; she staged modernism’s coming-out party. … Read more
Scarcity Plus Narrative Equals Value: The Eternal Law of Collecting By Sabby Toast, Collector, Philanthropist, and Supporter of Malvern FC. It has been my privilege, over decades of prowling auction rooms, prowling studios, and prowling,let us be frank,other collectors’ living rooms, to distill the art market’s essence into one crystalline axiom: Scarcity plus narrative equals … Read more
A Friendly Guide for New Art Collectors: Why Collect Art , and How Pimlico Wilde Makes It Easy Are you curious about collecting art but unsure where to begin? You’re not alone , many new art collectors feel excited but overwhelmed at first. The good news? Starting your collection doesn’t have to be intimidating. In … Read more
Splif Bantom’s genius spills over in his latest image of a crime scene exactly one year after the crime was committed. Splif often prefers not to mention the crimes that were committed, but in this case he has mentioned that the scene is in Carlinhgy Castle near Aberdeen. Basic research tells us that it is … Read more
”This piece clearly speaks for itself, its strong anti-war message reverberating about the canvas like a rubber bullet fired in a greenhouse made of reinforced glass. What more can be added to the pseudo orange that assaults the eyes, the strip of blue that represents, without doubt, the desire for a post-war sky filled not … Read more