In London, collectors light for ceramics
In London, collectors light for ceramics
Asian collectors have long treasured porcelain vases as well as paintings, but until recently, art lovers elsewhere considered ceramics a second-rate art. Now, the global art market is trying to elevate the art of clay to the blue kingdom.
Christie's and Phillips for the first time added independent auctions of contemporary ceramics of the 20th century to their set of high-profile evening sales in London with examples of artists such as Paul Gauguin, Lucio Fontana and Thomas Schütte. All but three of the 36 pieces in Christie's "Un / Breakable" sale for $ 4 million on Tuesday found buyers.
On the other side of the city, at the Frieze London art fair, which coincided with the auctions of the week, at least half a dozen galleries also offered ceramics on their stands, including the bust of Robert Arneson in 1983 of his wife Sandra Shannonhouse, "Woman in Gold", on Venus Over The Manhattan booth. Its price was $ 650,000.
Paul Gauguin, 'Vase-bouquet "Atahualpa" "
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Another highlight: "Everything Is OK", the Spanish-Egyptian artist Teresa Solar Abboud of 2018, a salmon column of ceramic bowls that evokes a intestinal tract, with a price of around $ 5,800. As of Friday afternoon, Ms. Solar Abboud's piece was still available, and Venus Over Manhattan refused to disclose the status of Mr. Arneson's piece. The fair concludes on Sunday.
In other parts of this season, several galleries and museums of taste creators are also playing with ceramics. The Gagosian Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, has a "Fire and Clay" show until December 15 that includes potters Shio Kusaka, who resides in Los Angeles, and Ron Nagle, who is from San Francisco. In New York, the Museum of Art and Design has just inaugurated an exhibition of apocalyptic ceramics from Sterling Ruby of Los Angeles. It extends until March.
The granddaughter of Pablo Picasso, Marina Picasso.It gave a shake to the market of contemporary ceramics. Three years ago when he enlisted
sell a part of his treasure inherited from the playful pottery of the artist. Collectors in the course of three sales bought each piece of pottery, in some cases paying six-figure sums that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The sale of Picasso pottery goods at the Jurassic Richard Attenborough park in Christie, two years ago, generated a similar frenzy of buying everything, with a Picasso vase that sold for $ 909,407.
The astute push of the auction houses also comes at a time when the confidence of the collector It remains the highest in the middle of the market. where the pieces normally sell between $ 500,000 and $ 5 million compared to the top of the market trophy, where the pieces can exceed $ 100 million, according to the Confidence Report in the Contemporary Art Market of the tracking company of ArtTactic auctions published on Tuesday.
"He Xie" by Ai Weiwei, which incorporates porcelain sunflower seeds and crayfish, sold for $ 793,000 on Friday.
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However, the trophies are still sold at Sotheby's: on Friday, the sale of part of the estate of the New Jersey management consultant, David Teiger, included a $ 12.4 million Jenny Saville, "Propped", which restored the record of one live artist in an auction.
The ambience has pushed collectors to reinforce ceramic pieces for dozens of artists such as Peter Voulkos, whose 1958 stoneware extract, "Rondena," was sold at Phillips last December for $ 915,000, up from his estimated $ 500,000 . The sale also established a new auction bar for a twentieth-century pottery made by an artist from the United States.
That price still pales in comparison to the 38 million dollars paid for a Chinese pottery at auction (Sotheby's sold a container from the North Song era to wash brushes), but general recalibration could expand the base of the collector. Look out for the prices of modern potters like George Ohr, the self-proclaimed "Mad Potter of Biloxi," as well as post-war potters Lucie Rie and Hans Coper. Her works have long been channeled into sales of decorative art along with lamps and sofas, instead of paintings, sculptures and other works of art, but Christie's expert, Leonie Mir, said such designations are blurring because collectors Younger contemporaries do not classify or classify works of art strictly. half more
Nor contemporary artists like Ai Weiwei, who incorporates all kinds of materials in his work. Among its recent facilities are: hand-sized porcelain room size stacks, sunflower seeds and crayfish.
"There's a lot of cross-pollination," said Meaghan Roddy, Phillips' senior international specialist, who sold the crayfish, or "He Xie," for $ 793,000 on Friday.
Here is a look at five other Frieze Week artists who became creative with clay.
The 'Grand vase aux femmes voilées' by Picasso (A.R. 116)
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso started making plates and clay bowls in the 1940s as a windy summer pastime, but he stayed that way for the rest of his life, and eventually made more than 600 kinds of pieces, often shaped like animals or adorned with images of mythological characters. On Tuesday, Christie's main lot was a 1950s terracotta "large vase with women veil" that sold for $ 526,175, slightly above her low estimate of $ 520,000. But there are signs that collectors are starting to turn their ceramics like they do with their paintings: Christie's also sold her 1950's "Tripod (AR 125)" vase representing her lover, Françoise Gilot, for $ 195,000, but the seller he paid Sotheby's $ 272,060 just for two years.
Fausto Melotti, 'I gessetti' (1959)
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Fausto Melotti
Fausto Melotti, an art partner and student of Lucio Fontana, initially gained fame in the 1930s for making geometric sculptures, but after his studio in Milan was destroyed during World War II, he turned his pain into terracotta. He began to make clay scenes with small figures often separated as if they lived on separate floors. He hinted at the stories with this series of puppet plays, Mir de Christie's said, adding: "There is domesticity for them, but the figures are isolated." Today, the shaking metal sculptures of Melotti have sold for up to $ 665,000. but Christie's restored its clay record on Tuesday by selling "The Chalks" of 1959 for $ 416,975.
"Overgrown" by Kathy Butterly
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Kathy butterly
New York artist Kathy Butterly has spent the last two decades collapsing clay in cheerful and maladjusted forms that seem to collapse, but do not. She used nail polish as an enamel, sometimes shooting her pieces dozens of times and risking destruction in the process, according to her merchant James Cohan, who has an individual exhibition of her work, "Presence of Thought," through October 20. . NY. On Friday in London, Phillips' $ 3.3 million sale included his 7-inch piece, "Overgrown," which sold for $ 21,160. Its price was up to $ 20,000.
'Balustrade Relief Vase 07-4' by Betty Woodman (2007)
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Betty Woodman
Betty Woodman, who died earlier this year, studied ceramics in New York in the late 1940s, but later spent time in Tuscany, where she earned a reputation for creating vases that appeared to have been disarmed and stuck in the wall. "She is creating three-dimensional works in a two-dimensional way," said Ms. Roddy de Phillips. In 2006, Woodman was the first potter alive to get a retrospective of his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and since then his market has started to grow. On Friday, Phillips sold his "Balustrade Relief Vase 07-4" in 2007 for $ 61,850, tripling his high estimate.
Yeesookyung, 'Translated Vase_2016 TVJ 2' (2016)
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Yeesookyung
Since 2002, the Seoul-based artist Yeesookyung has assembled traditional Korean ceramic pots broken by the manufacturers because they have defects. She takes the pieces and builds them into new bulbous shapes using an old technique in which a 24-karat gold leaf is used as a seam. His "translated glasses", as he calls them, have since been compiled by museums, which are shown in Last year's Venice Biennale and sold at auction for up to $ 33,231. During the VIP day for Frieze on Wednesday, Gallery Hyundai sold its "Translated Vase_2016 TVJ 2" of 2016 for $ 26,000.
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