He said, 'These are amazing,' His wife came alongside him. Within three minutes he told me, 'I am going to take Michael Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis Presley.' I said, 'That's amazing. Thank you so much.' Prices for the works ranged from $50,000.
The two works offered at the house's 20th/21st Century Evening Sale in London on March 5 include Schober (Haybarn) from 1984, one of the artist's largest landscape photo-paintings, with presale expectations in the region of £6 million ($8.2 million). Formerly in in the collection of New York real estate developers Emily and Jerry Spiegel, who acquired the work from dealer Marian Goodman in 1985, the canvas sold at Christie's New York in 2017 for $6.97 million to the current owner.
Everything I do tends to be instinctive rather than calculated, but I've been looking for a different kind of space with a different kind of tone for quite a long time because both Kingly Street and my former gallery at Davies Street were both quite brutal spaces. I wanted to offer something else to the artists, and I've never had a townhouse gallery in London. So, it just seemed like something I hadn't done before.
At just thirteen years old, San Diego painter Andres Valencia is adding another remarkable chapter to his meteoric rise. The prodigy, whose Cubist-inspired works have already made waves on the global art stage, has partnered with Paris-based Mourlot Editions for a series of limited and open edition lithographs. The collaboration marks a rare honor, as Mourlot-founded in 1852 and renowned for its work with masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Chagall, and Miró-rarely extends its expertise to contemporary artists.