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Franz West
[Austrian Sculptor, 1947-2012]
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Franz West Works Online
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Original works by Franz West available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Home Page:
Franz West
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands
(to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page)
3 works online
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City
From the 2004 exhibition Design is not Art
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art), North Adams
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Provisorium, 1991
Untitled, 1991
Palazzo Grassi, Venice - the François Pinault Foundation exhibition space
La Sagna, 2007
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent, Belgium
Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Click "W" for "West"
The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago
Pre-Semblance and The Everyday
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Dorotheum Auctions, Vienna - Notable Past Sales
Settee (See the text link to a high-resolution image)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Inside Installations
Information from a research project into the care and administration of installation art
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) 
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Frieze Magazine
"Adaptation"
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 63): Franz West
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Franz West at Whitechapel Gallery", 2003 review by Adrian Searle
The New Yorker
"Franz West, to Build a House You Start with the Roof", 2008 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The New Yorker
"Douglas Gordon and Franz West at the Gagosian Gallery", 2003 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Franz West on Dieter Roth's Strassenausblick
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Franz West (Contemporary Artists)
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