Caroline Wiseman (born 12 March 1954) is a British art dealer and author. She has had success selling prints by

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Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

Matisse Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known prima ...

, and

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and modern artists such as

Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British Painting, painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with Abstract art, abstraction. Early life Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1 ...

Patrick Heron Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced b ...

Elisabeth Frink Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink (14 November 1930 – 18 April 1993) was an English sculptor and printmaker. Her ''Times'' obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in ...

, and

Terry Frost Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist, who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in ...

Career

Wiseman qualified as a

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in 1976 before becoming an art dealer. She is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Suffolk, an Ambassador for

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, and a Fellow of the

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. Her books include ''Elisabeth Frink Original Prints Catalogue Raisonne'', 1998, ''Modern Art Now, from Conception to Consumption'', 2006, and ''The Leonardo Question'', 2009. Wiseman previously served as a trustee of

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, a charity which loans works of art to hospitals. In 2010 she and her partner

Francis Carnwath Francis Anthony Armstrong Carnwath CBE (26 May 1940 – 26 June 2020) was a British banker and chairman of many arts and heritage organisations. Biography Francis Carnwath began his career with Barings Bank, rising to become a director. T ...

founded the Aldeburgh Beach Lookout as a centre for the public to view and discuss modern art and ideas. Since then, the Lookout has hosted exhibitions by many international artists, philosophers and thinkers. Also in 2010, Wiseman's ''The Leonardo Question'', telling the story of

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through the voices of influential artists and asking the question, "what makes good art?", was adapted for stage and presented at the

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. Reviewers felt the theme was laboured and had little depth, but that the piece was "spirited" and had "wit and charm." In February 2021, Wiseman became the focus of a dispute over the planning permission of a series of sculptures by

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; ''Another Pla ...

Personal life

She married Garth Wiseman in 1986 and their triplet sons were born in 1990. They separated and Wiseman began living with

in 2004. Carnwath died in 2020.

Selected works

* ''Elisabeth Frink Original Prints Catalogue Raisonne'', 1998 * ''Modern Art Now, from Conception to Consumption'', 2006 * ''The Leonardo Question'', 2009

References

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