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Masterpiece Fair Makes Connections … and Sales

July 11, 2016 by Marion Maneker

Castelliani, Superfice 700k EUR
Castelliani, Superfice 700k EUR

Scott Reyburn checks in on the Masterpiece Fair in London to see what the mood is among dealers and find out what might have sold:

‘“The market feels difficult. There’s a weird atmosphere because of Brexit,” said Hugh Gibson, director of the London modern and contemporary dealers Thomas Gibson Fine Art.

Sales weren’t strong but they weren’t lacking either:

  • Yet the FAS did sell a fine, if suitably somber 1942 “Grey and Pink Still Life” by the postwar Scottish painter Anne Redpath to a British collector for £245,000.
  • The antiquities specialists Ariadne Galleries of New York and London found an American buyer for an ancient Greek marble head of Aphrodite, dating from the mid-2nd century B.C., priced at between £1 million and £1.5 million.
  • But Robert Young, a dealer in folk art based in London, sold 28 objects priced between £3,000 and £26,000 within three hours of the June 29 preview. These included a 19th-century model of a butcher’s shop, snapped up for £25,000 by a Canadian living in London, typifying the fair’s core clientele of locally based internationals.
  •  M & L Fine Art, specialists in 20th century Italian art based in London […] found a European buyer at about €700,000 for a rare Enrico Castellani 1961 pale green “Untitled (Superficie)” nail and canvas abstract that the fair’s Awards Committee voted the outstanding work by a living artist at the event.

British Art Fairs: One Country, but Worlds Apart  (The New York Times)

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