The art market is quite literally a market place, where investors buy and sell artworks with profit as their motive. For an art lover, it is somewhat strange for me to think art about it this way, but I understand how the market works and appreciate that when you are spending an extraordinary amount of money on something, you'd like to think that it will hold it's value or even better, appreciate in value over time.
Collecting takes a keen eye and an understanding of the artists place in societies present discourse. Our team wants to take the guess work out of collecting - by working with legendary & innovative contemporary artists, we offer an authentic collecting experience for first time buyers and collectors alike.
Most well known (for now at least) from our portfolio is Michael Goldberg (1924-2007). Goldberg was a generation younger than the core group of New York School painters--Rothko, Pollock, de Kooning - and while he was frequently classified as a second-generation member of this illustrious group, this designation referred more to the artist's age than the quality of his paintings. Goldberg's ouevre is characterized by only one constant: nimble, improvisational reinvention. While he remained deeply committed to abstraction, over the course of his long career -from the 1940s until his death in 2007 - Goldberg reconceptualized the visual, aesthetic and material boundaries of abstract painting.
Over the past 5 years, Goldberg's work has been selling for record prices at auction. In 2008 an Untitled piece from 1956
(above left) sold for a whopping $208,000 USD at Christies in NYC. That same year, The Keep - painted in 1958
(above right) sold for $183,000 USD.
Our creative team originated in New York City and comprises of artists, critics, historians and academics with a common love of all things art, and a passion to make art accessible to everyone. We have been able to work with the Estate's of artists like Michael Goldberg and others who love art and who would like their work to be available to people with a more modest budget. Our pieces are for those of us who are interested in buying art that not only speaks to them, but art that will be a worthwhile investment for the future.
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