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The artwork George Washington Carver Crossing The Delaware: Page From An American History Textbook by Robert Colescott is on display during Sotheby s press preview of the upcoming Contemporary Art Evening Auction in New York. Photo: AFP
Black artists are represented like never before at New York s spring sales this week after years of being overlooked and underappreciated, with several expected to set new records for their works.
American-born Jean-Michel Basquiat, of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, becomes the first Black painter to headline both Christie s and Sotheby s main auctions, on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
The 1983
Versus Medici are expected to fetch around US$50mil (RM205mil) each during the virtual auctions.
Sunday, 09 May 2021 06:15 PM MYT
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 ‘In This Case,’ part of his trilogy of ‘skull’ paintings, is expected to fetch around US$50 million during the virtual auctions. Picture courtesy of Christie’s
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NEW YORK, May 9 Black artists are represented like never before at New York’s spring sales next week after years of being overlooked and underappreciated, with several expected to set new records for their works.
American-born Jean-Michel Basquiat, of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, becomes the first Black painter to headline both Christie’s and Sotheby’s main auctions, on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively.
May 10, 2021
Thomas Urbain & Peter Hutchison
NEW YORK (AFP) – Black artists are represented like never before at New York’s spring sales next week after years of being overlooked and underappreciated, with several expected to set new records for their works.
American-born Jean-Michel Basquiat, of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, becomes the first Black painter to headline both Christie’s and Sotheby’s main auctions, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The 1983
Versus Medici are expected to fetch around USD50 million each during the virtual auctions.
The late Robert Colescott, renowned for expressionist paintings that dealt with Black identity and history, is expected to increase his record tenfold, with his 1975