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Artprice: Artists Under Forty - Top 10 Ranking
PARIS, Feb. 5, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

In our fortnightly series of art market rankings designed to highlight some of 
its key trends, this week, artprice take a look at the new generation of 
artists emerging on the secondary market. One conclusion stands out above the 
rest: you don't have to be over forty to fetch over a million dollars!   

thierry Ehrmann: "There are six artists in our ranking of the Top 10 results of 
the year 2018 for artists aged less than forty. Among them, two have attracted 
7 digit results: the young Chinese HAO Liang and the American artist of 
Nigerian origin Njideka Akunyili CROSBY. They both generated two results above 
the million-dollar threshold and they are both 35 years old. However, their 
domination of this ranking comes as no major surprise..."

Rank; Artist; Hammer Price ($); Artwork; Sale:

1. Njideka Akunyili CROSBY (1983) 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/672624/njideka-akunyili-crosby]; 1,932,500; 
Mimetic Gestures 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/672624/njideka-akunyili-crosby/painting/1583790
3/mimetic%20gestures]; 2018-05-18 - Christie's New York

2. HAO Liang (1983) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/469926/liang-hao]; 
1,855,061; Shell 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/469926/liang-hao/drawing-watercolor/16828302/sh
ell]; 2018-09-30 - Sotheby's Hong Kong

3. Njideka Akunyili CROSBY (1983) 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/672624/njideka-akunyili-crosby]; 1,392,500; 
Untitled 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/672624/njideka-akunyili-crosby/painting/1719710
4/untitled]; 2018-11-16 - Christie's New York

4. HAO Liang (1983) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/469926/liang-hao]; 
1,361,398; The Hunter and the Transformations of Hell 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/469926/liang-hao/drawing-watercolor/17278014/th
e%20hunter%20and%20the%20transformations%20of%20hell]; 2018-11-24 - Christie's 
Wanchai

5. Avery SINGER (1987) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/611277/avery-singer]; 
735,000; Fellow Travelers, Flaming Creatures 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/611277/avery-singer/painting/15860406/fellow%20
travelers,%20flaming%20creatures]; 2018-05-16 - Sotheby's New York

6. JIA Chang (1981) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/717411/chang-jia]; 
678,805; Elephant 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/717411/chang-jia/drawing-watercolor/16242306/el
ephant%20(太平有象)]; 2018-06-17 - Poly International 
Auction Co.,Ltd Pékin

7. Avery SINGER (1987) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/611277/avery-singer]; 
591,000; Untitled (Saturday Night) 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/611277/avery-singer/painting/17191638/untitled%
20(saturday%20night)]; 2018-11-15 - Sotheby's New York

8. Avery SINGER (1987) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/611277/avery-singer]; 
435,000; Flute Soloist 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/611277/avery-singer/painting/16776009/flute%20s
oloist]; 2018-09-25 - Sotheby's New York

9. Cory ARCANGEL (1978) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/435054/cory-arcangel]; 
399,000; Photoshop CS... 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/435054/cory-arcangel/photography/15852903/photo
shop%20cs:%2084%20by%2066%20inches,%20300%20dpi,%20rgb,%20square%20pixels,%20def
ault%20gradient,%20'blue,%20red,%20yellow'%20(turn%20reverse%20of),%20mousedown%
20x=4000%20y=5350,%20mouse%20up%20x=20000%20y=1200]; 2018-05-17 - Phillips New 
York

10. Nate LOWMAN (1979) [https://www.artprice.com/artist/339672/nate-lowman]; 
350,000; Escalade 
[https://www.artprice.com/artist/339672/nate-lowman/painting/17191884/escalade];
 2018-11-15 - Sotheby's New York

copyright (c) 2019 artprice.com

Auction turnover CROSBY vs. HAO

(Photo: 
https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/817252/Artprice_Turnover_CROSBY_HAO_Fr.jpg )

Two young 'millionaires' 

Njideka Crosby has been headline news since 2014 when she was awarded the James 
Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. On the 
secondary market, her works have been subject to massive demand since 2016 when 
her works first appeared… (also the year of her first 7-digit result).

Today, with seven 7-digit results under her belt over two years, she is the 
clear spearhead of a new generation of African-American artists shaking the 
auction market.

Her record currently stands at over $3 million for a painting of her sister 
(The Beautiful Ones) sold in 2017 at Christie's in London by Peggy Cooper 
Cafritz, an equal rights activist and a major collector of African-American and 
African art who died last year. Initially American, demand for Crosby's work 
quickly spread to Asia (with the successful sale of Tea Time In New Haven, 
Enugu for over $900,000 at Christie's in Hong Kong on 27 May 2017).

Supply is clearly well below current demand: her works are still rare at 
auction and none has ever failed to sell. The artist, who already had the 
support of a major gallery through Victoria Miro in London, is now also 
supported, since last November, by the powerful David Zwirner Gallery in Asia 
and the United States.

The Chinese art market produced the second 'millionaire' young artist of 2018 
in the person of  Hao Liang who first caught people's attention in 2014 with a 
superb auction debut: a silk scroll over 13 meters long titled The Tale of the 
Clouds that fetched $912,000 at Christie's in Shanghai.

The year 2018 saw a double auction consecration for this young artist acclaimed 
by the Asian market, with two new million-plus results, including a $1.8 
million record on 30 September in Hong Kong versus a pre-sale estimate of 
between $400,000 and $600,000. While the market for this prodigy has not yet 
spread beyond Greater China, his notoriety has already spread across the globe.

Supported by the powerful Gagosian Gallery (which gave him a New York 
exhibition last spring), the artist is already in the collections of major 
museums around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 
the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Kadist in San Francisco.

Straw fire or new meteor? 

Chinese collectors always support their artists, even when those artists don't 
yet have an international reputation.

For proof... our Top 10 ranking also contains an artist about whom almost 
nothing is known except that he is called Jia Chang, was born in 1981, and that 
one of his drawings elicited vigorous bidding at the Four Seasons Hotel in 
Beijing at a sale organized by Poly Auction.

The drawing entitled Elephant (355 x 190 cm) multiplied its pre-sale estimate 
by five with a final bid of $679,000 on 17 June 2018. A spectacular result that 
could be a straw fire... or may translate into solid medium-term support.

In a different register, the ranking also highlights the American artist Avery 
Singer, aged 31, who already has a strong CV after exhibitions at the 
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin), the Kunsthalle in Zürich, the New 
Museum in New York and the Hammer Museum In L.A..

Courted by museums and the media, the young artist is seeing her auction prices 
rocket after a first discreet appearance at Sotheby's in London in October 2017 
and despite two unsold pieces in New York last year. Singer produces surprising 
large fictional compositions, mainly in black and white, integrating 3D 
modeling.  

Considering the support she is receiving, we can expect further surprises. In 
2013, her canvas Fellow Travelers, Flaming Creatures was acquired from New 
York's Greene Naftali Gallery for $20,000. In May 2018 the same work fetched 
$735,000 at Sotheby's New York.

The buyer was none other than Larry Gagosian.

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