Christie’s Keeps At Outsider Art Market

Christie’s continues to try to expand the market for Outsider art both through the Contemporary art market and as an extension of the American art market. Bloomberg’s James Tarmy has a story on the latter approach:

Christie’s […] is holding an auction of Outsider & Vernacular art on Jan. 22, which will coincide with the Outsider Art Fair, which runs Jan. 21–24 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York.

Christie’s top lot is a sculpture by William Edmondson (1874-1951), which has a high estimate of $250,000. [above] Other lots include a graphite and crayon drawing by Martín Ramírez from 1953, Untitled (Seven Stags), which has a high estimate of $100,000, and a child-like painting by William Hawkins of a spotted leopard from 1988, which carries a high estimate of $40,000.

Outsider Art Goes Mainstream (Bloomberg Business)