Exhibitions
2017
Chelsea
Operation takes over corporate by Jay Z
New York City,, New York proudly presents Chelsea ; an exciting new triumph dreamt up by John Sebastian Gordon, a young patron from New York City wishing to invest in an out of the ordinary exclusive experience benefitting established and exciting emerging artists from a myriad of different mediums.
John have curated a show by handpicking their favorite and most intriguing artists to present to the discerning collector looking to make their next investment in artists with exceptional talent and potential. The artists hail from New York City, London, Paris, Russia, Korea, Sweden, Bulgaria, Brazil, Argentina, Pakistan, China, Mexico and El Salvador. Some have been featured in New York Magazine, WWD, W Magazine, Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, Jute Magazine, Uomo Moderno, Refinery 29, Lucky Magazine, Elle Magazine, WhoWhatWear, Nylon, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and on CNN, Univision, Voice of America, Al Jazeera and Telemundo..
2018
Greenpoint
We are legends every day by Chris Martin
We want to formally invite you to our third consecutive artistic roundabout, Sunday October 13th from 1 – 11 PM at 13 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn.
BlueHannah is partnering up with local curatorial team The Saints NYC to create Greenpoint, a multidisciplinary experience, where the artists can share with the public what are their inspirational objects, personas, elements, models, materials, fashion icons, music starts and colors.
Those looking for a brand new medium to express their talents in the art, fashion, photography, sculpture and performance fields have found their new home. “There is no great freedom than collective artistic cooperation”.
2019
Suspended
Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form by Vladimir Nobokov
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – White Space will host it’s first collaboration between curator Julie Wynn and The Saints NYC, “Suspended” a multi media art exhibit with a surprising immersive experience that will leave guests wondering where they are being lead. Displaying an experimental curated collection of local and established artists in the amenity of a
historic building.
2020
Rivington
The King of Kings by Jesus
The Art on Rivington is partnering up with local curatorial team The Saints NYC to create an immersive experience, displaying an exquisitely curated selection of pieces from local based artists Rodrigo Scalzi and Manuel Larralde in the amenity space of a historic building. This is a unique opportunity to merge art, the vitivinicultura and the real estate worlds.
The Saints NYC is a New York based company dedicated to curating and supporting art collectives from across the globe. Its core mission is to help increase the exposure of works completed by both emerging and established artists in unique, creative and experiential environments.
Sales
About Us
Below is an overview which best outlines Atam Sahmanian Fine Art Business and what THE SAINTS NYC Art Department has to offer to clients through our partnership. It also includes a short list of the artists and an example of the artworks we have available for sale:
- Dealers in fine art (e.g. paintings, sculptures) for 32 years.
- Over 15 employees working throughout the world.
- Established corporate collections for Fortune 500 companies.
- Sales to museums and foundations in North America, Asia and Europe.
- Representative of ARTnews Top 200 Collectors and various on Forbes World’s Billionaires list.
- Over 2,000 art clients: collectors, investors, advisors, banks, corporations, trusts, estate attorneys.
Of Note:
- This group holds under management a minimum US$2 billion in fine art (actively buying/reselling), focusing on a particular niche market, namely ’high-end’/’best of the best’/blue chip artwork (e.g. impressionists/modern, contemporary… from Picasso, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Matisse, Modigliani, Chagall… to Kandinsky, Malevich, Léger, Rothko, Bacon, Warhol, Basquiat, Lichtenstein, Richter, Nara, American art, many more…).
- Prices range from US$50,000 to US$200 million+.
- The group’s (personally and corporately) further owns over US$250 million in fine art.
All works are fully documented.
The Saints Team
Atam Sahmanian, has been a New York-based Dealer in Fine Art since 1983, with expertise in the private sale and purchase of paintings, drawings, and sculptures of 19th and 20th century masters. He also specializes in the sale of rare prints. With his extensive international travels, as well as assistants in Europe and Tokyo, he has access to an international market ranging from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. Atam offers clients a wide array of distinguished Secondary Market Services. The Secondary Market – works in resale from clients and other sources he represent – is an excellent way of locating major Impressionist, Post Impressionist, and Modern works by important artists in resale and for finding desired specific artworks for a collection by Artists – living or deceased. His gallery presently represents a number of major private collections in the handling of important works of art through the secondary market. His excellent network of important collections has made him the premier distribution source for works in the secondary market. In addition, he also have available in resale various major outdoor Sculpture Works by: Alexander Calder; Robert Indiana; Alberto Giacometti; John Chamberlain; Claes Oldenberg; George Rickey; Henry Moore; Pablo Picasso; Roy Lichtenstein; and Deborah Butterfield.
Pat Caporaso is an internationally recognized independent contemporary fine art consultant and advisor to collectors, dealers, corporations and museums. She is actively engaged in high value discreet art sales and services to high profile clients. Over the past thirty-five years, she has placed paintings, drawings, sculptures and installations by both established and emerging artists in some of the most prestigious collections and venues. Works by such artists as Picasso, Modigliani, Cezanne and Calder are only a few of many Pat has worked on placing. Previously, Pat was with Leo Castelli (1976-1992) where she guided clients passionate about contemporary fine art. Pat is a highly respected expert on the work of John Chamberlain, Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly and Andy Warhol. During Pat’s Castelli tenure, she was the first to sell photographs in the 1980’s by such photographers as Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, James Welling, Nan Goldin, Laurie Simmons, Robert Longo and many others from the “Pictures Generation.” Pat has curated 100’s of shows internationally. She frequently lectures and has collaborated on numerous books regarding Castelli era artists and their significance in art history.
Ivelise Grimaldi, Vice President of the Musem Eduardo Sivori Friends Association. The Museum was founded in 1933. It’s the most prestigious public Museum in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Has a collection of 4000 pieces. Situated at the posh neighborhood Palermo, has four wings, a sculpture garden (named after Grimaldi’s mother), three offices, a restoration department, a conservation department, a library, an archive, a deposit, a store, a coffee shop and multiple art spaces. The collection has pieces from Eduardo Sivori, Emilio Caraffa, Eduardo Schiaffino, Ernesto de la Carcova Cupertino del Campo, Martin Boneo, Martin Malharro, Ramon Silva, Valentin Thibon de Libian, Walter de Navazio, Antonio Alice, Lino Spilimbergo, Emilio Pettoruti, Ramon Gomez Cornet, Enrique de Larranaga, Juan del Petre, Demetrio Urruchua, Horacio Butler, Enrique Policastro, Miguel Victorica, Luis Seoane, Antonio Berni, Raquel Forner, Juan Castagnino, Aquiles Badi, Eugenio Deneri, Miguel Diomede, Hector Basadua, Raul Russo, Carlos Torrallardona, Leopoldo Presas, , Alfredo Hlito, Raul Lozza, Alfredo Gramajo Gutierrez, Luis Centurion, Horacio March, Onofrio Pacenza, Juan Battle Planas, Benito Quinquela Martin, Domingo Candia, Manuel Espinosa, Etc. Ivelise is a board member of the Eduardo Sivori Museum. She runs the most successful annual auction held in the country, raising private funds to support the various exhibits, fairs and installations held at different Art Institutions in Argentina and around the world. She has a bachelor degree in Fine Arts from the University of Buenos Aires.
John Sebastian Gordon Grimaldi is the Founder of The Saints LLC, company based in New York City and Delaware. The company five department’s funds and supports art projects/artists around the globe. John been an artist himself understands the complexity of the art world and how difficult sometimes is to give an idea a form to be then turn into something which audiences have access to, ideally speaking to appreciate it and have the opportunity to see the “work”. John has a Master in Fine Arts from the prestigious “The Actor’s Studio” in New York City. As an actor and producer John has won prizes in festivals such as in the Manhattan Film Festival, NYLA International Film Festival, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, Rome International Film Festival, SOHO Film Festival and the San Antonio Film Festival. John comes from a family of art advisers/collectors; he started collecting himself at the early age of 25. John lives in New York City and Milan.
Artists and Estates we represent:
Josef Albers
Banksy
Georges Braque
Alexander Calder
Paul Cezanne
Marc Chagall
William de Kooning
Jim Dine
Jean Dubuffet
Max Ernst
Paul Gauguin
Alberto Giacometti
Arshile Gorky
Juan Gris
David Hockney
Jasper Johns
Ellsworth Kelly
Franz Kline
Fernand Leger
Roy Lichtenstein
Henri Matisse
Joan Miro
Amedeo Modigliani
Claude Monet
Henry Moore
Robert Motherwell
Richard Pettibone
Pablo Picasso
Jackson Pollock
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Gerhard Richter
Auguste Rodin
Ed Ruscha
Egon Schiele
Cy Twombly
Vincent Van Gogh
Andy Warhol
Sample of Artwork
Pablo Picasso
Portrait d’Angel Fernández de Soto
Signed and dated ‘Picasso 1903’ (upper right) Oil on Canvas.
27 5/8 x 213⁄4 in. (70.3 x 55.3 cm).
Painted in Barcelona in 1903.
Provenance
Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin.
Justin K. Thannhauser, Berlin and Lucerne, by 31 August 1935.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, by whom acquired from the above on 2 September 1936.
William H. Taylor, West Chester, Pennsylvania, by whom acquired from the above in October 1936.
Donald and Jean Stralem, New York, by whom acquired from the above through the Agency of M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, in May 1946; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 1995, Lot 14.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Cassou, Picasso, New York, 1940 (illustrated pl. 47)
F. Elgar & R. Maillard, Picasso, Paris, 1955, p. 185 (illustrated, titled ‘Angel Fernández de Soto’)
D. Sutton, Peintures: Epoques Bleue et Rose, Paris, 1955, no. 24. P. Daix & G. Boudaille, Picasso, The Blue and Rose Periods, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1900-1906, London, 1967, no. IX.20, p. 225 (illustrated, titled ‘Angel Fernández de Soto’)
Moravia & P. Lecaldano, L’Opera Completa di Picasso Blu e Rosa, Milan, 1968, no. 74, p. 93 (illustrated)
Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906, vol. 1, Paris, 1969, no. 201 (illustrated pl. 90, titled ‘Angel Fernández de Soto’). D. Sutton & P. Lecaldano, The Complete Paintings of Picasso, Blue and Rose Periods, London, 1971, no. 74, p. 92 (illustrated p. 93).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso, Life and Work of the Early Years, 1881-1907, New York, 1981, no. 911, p. 542 (illustrated p. 352, titled ‘Blue Portrait of Angel F. de Soto’)
J. Warnod, Le Bateau Lavoir, Paris, 1986, p. 61 (illustrated, titled ‘Portrait de Soto’)
J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso, 1881-1906, vol. I, New York, 1991, p. 285-286 (illustrated p. 285, titled ‘Portrait of Angel de Soto’)
P. Daix, Picasso: Life and Art, London, 1993, p. 36
M. Covenay, Cats on a Chandelier: the Andrew Lloyd Webber Story, London, 1999, p. 213
B. Léal, C. Piot & M.-L. Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 120, pp. 60 and 506 (illustrated p. 64, titled ‘Blue Portrait of Angel F. de Soto’)
Exhibited
Buenos Aires, Galeria Müler, Exposición Pablo Ruiz Picasso, October 1934, no. 4
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Exhibition of French Art, March – April 1937 New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Loan Exhibition of Allied Art for Allied Aid, June 1940, no. 18
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Exhibition Celebrating Knoedler’s One Hundred Years — 1846-1946, April 1946, no. 76
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Picasso before 1907. Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, October – November 1947, no. 15 (illustrated, titled ‘Angel Fernández de Soto’)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, August 1949.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, July – September 1960, no. 87
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Picasso: an American Tribute, April – May 1962, no. 18 (illustrated, titled ‘The Absinthe Drinker’)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, July – September 1962, no. 63 (loan no. L 62.63.6)
Toronto, The Art Gallery, Picasso and Man, January – February 1964, no. 17 (illustrated p. 37, titled ‘Angel Fernández de Soto/The Absinthe Drinker’); this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, February – March 1964
Dallas, Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso: Two Concurrent Retrospective Exhibitions, February – March 1967, no. 7 (illustrated p. 14, titled ‘The Absinthe Drinker’)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, July – September 1968 (loan no. 68.85.9)
New York, Saidenberg Gallery Inc., Homage to Picasso for his 90th Birthday. Exhibition for the benefit of the American Cancer Society, October 1971, no. 2 (illustrated p. 17, titled ‘The Absinthe Drinker’).
New York, Acquavella Galleries
Inc., Picasso. A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of Cancer Care, Inc., The National Cancer Foundation, April – May 1975 (illustrated, titled ‘The Absinthe Drinker’)
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on loan, 1990-1991
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, September – December 2003, no. 282 (illustrated, titled ‘Angel Fernández de Soto’)
London, The National Gallery, on loan, May – September 2005 (loan no. 665)
London, The National Gallery, Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the Nineteenth Century, June – August 2006, no. 39 (illustrated p. 117)
Terms and Conditions for the Sale of Works of Art
Thank you for expressing interest and working with Atam Sahmanian Fine Art Business and The Saints NYC in New York. Please read carefully the following Terms and Conditions, which must be accepted by the Seller and Attorney-in-Fact.
1. Direct Contact Person:
To present the Artwork to our clients, it is necessary to have a direct contact person at all times. This person must be competent to address any issues that may arise during the transaction. They may be the seller, their art advisor, marchand, family member with decision-making authority, attorney-in-fact, representative, agent, or authorized signatory.
2. Required Documentation:
- Before presenting any artwork to our clients, we require that the seller’s direct contact person, or the seller themselves, provide a file/PDF for each piece containing the following information:
- Data Sheet for each Artwork with the respective price.
- High-Resolution Photographs (back, front, and frame) of each Artwork.
- Condition Report for each Artwork.
- Valid Certificate of Authenticity for each Artwork issued by the Artist’s Estate or Foundation.
- It is important to ensure that the Artwork, if requested, can be viewed privately by Atam Sahmanian (President of Sahmanian Fine Art Business) or by John Sebastian Gordon (President of The Saints NYC) in one of the following cities: New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Geneva, Paris, London, Madrid, or Milan.
3. Private Viewing:
In the event that a Private Viewing is requested, all expenses associated with the viewing shall be paid by the seller. These costs will be deducted from the final purchase price of the artwork if the sale is completed fully and satisfactorily.
4. Proof of Funds and Final Purchase Offer:
After the private viewing, Atam Sahmanian and John Sebastian Gordon will send, through their attorneys, the Buyer’s Proof of Funds and the Final Purchase Offer to the Seller of the Artwork. This documentation will include the buyer’s personal information, acknowledgment of the artwork, and its final price, as well as the commissions for the corresponding sale.
5. Sale Period:
The sale will proceed within a period not exceeding 15 business days.
By accepting these terms, the Seller agrees to comply with all the conditions established to facilitate a successful transaction. We appreciate your cooperation.
Sincerely,
The Saints NYC, LLC Attorney-in-Fact
Title: President
Complete Name: John Sebastian Grimaldi
Date: 07/16/2025
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