2023-10-14 16:22:03
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Modern women are still overlooked
Status: 14.10.2023 | Reading time: 4 minutes
Emilie Charmy, “Colette”, around 1920
Quelle: Courtesy Galerie Bernard Bouche. Photo A.Ricci
The London art fair Frieze Masters has a new section: It honors the art of women who have previously played little role in the market. The desire for discovery among collectors and dealers is also reflected in the prices.
This year, the London art fair Frieze Masters has been curated in a particularly impressive way: here in Regent’s Park, where it is taking place for the eleventh time, you can find art from many centuries right up to the present day. And not just art, also unusual trophies such as the skeleton of a baby dinosaur, for which the gallery is asking for 20 million pounds.
An early Rembrandt, on which Gerrit Dou also contributed, is a little more expensive. The motif of blind Tobit greeting the returning Tobias is being discussed by Zurich-based Galerie Koetser for £24 million. A Baroque painting by Judith Leyster is cheaper from Johnny van Haeften, the doyen of art dealers from the Dutch Golden Century. She is often confused with Frans Hals, currently celebrated at the National Gallery. Your “Musicians” were already sold on the second day of the fair. The asking price was 1.5 million pounds.
At this fair, with 130 participating galleries, people repeatedly take the opportunity to build a bridge to current exhibitions in London. The old master art dealer Salomon Lilian from Geneva also echoes the Hals exhibition – with a male portrait by the Dutchman from 1635. Only acquired in July 2022, the dominant black of the robe was restored to its original painterly bravura (10 million euros). .
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Hauser und Wirth from Zurich is showing three pictures by the American painter at the fair parallel to the Philip Guston show at Tate Modern. The New York gallery Jack Shainman attracts visitors with the shimmering metal pendants by the artist El Anatsui from Ghana, who is currently decorating the huge turbine hall of the Tate Modern with them.
The Frieze Masters fair celebrates women
New to the Frieze Masters are the “Modern Women”: for the first time, a separate section will be dedicated to the sometimes still overlooked female artists of the 20th century. The Norwegian Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987), for example. At the Galerie Perrotin (Paris) with shimmering metallic abstractions inspired by nature, she emerges from the shadow of her much better-known husband, Hans Hartung, who incidentally always supported her work (between 80,000 and 550,000 euros).
Anna-Eva Bergman, “N°28-1965 Blue Valley”, 1965
Source: ©Hartung-Bergan Fundation Paris. Courtesy of the Estate and Perrotin/ © 2023 VG Bildkunst Bonn
The British Paule Vezelay also joins the group of ten artists. She adopted this name in Paris when she was part of the guard of Surrealist painters in the 1930s. Later she concentrated entirely on abstract paintings (£3,000 to £110,000 at the London gallery England & Co.).
The now 99-year-old Hungarian Vera Molnár, who lives in France, went even further. She experimented with computer-controlled drawings as early as the 1950s (between 30,000 and 45,000 euros at the Budapest Vintage Galéria). The artist Maria Lei (1919–2013) from Sardinia will also receive her first solo appearance in London. Abstract paintings, embroidered works, collages made with local materials, into which she even integrated parts of looms (80,000 to 800,000 euros at the Milan gallery MM).
Paule Vezelay, „Walking in the Wind“, 1930
Quelle: © Estate of Paule Vézelay, Foto England & Co
“No woman can possibly put herself or her sex outside any of the interests that affect humanity” – Faith wrote this lofty statement by a women’s rights activist at the end of the 19th century Ringgold in 1972 in fine gold letters on a deep blue background on one of her “Tankas”. At Ringgold, these fabric paintings inspired by Tibetan wall hangings with a forest landscape and floral, gold borders are the surprisingly decorative vehicle for the committed feminist message ($420,000).
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Ringgold, who was born in New York in 1930, called her strongly colored pictures from the early 1960s “superrealism”. Like the portrait of a busty woman gazing confidently into our eyes, bathed in bright red against green braid (1.4 million dollars). An ironic variant of Ringgold’s feminism is estimated at 4.5 million dollars by her long-standing New York ACA Galleries: The also early multi-figure painting “Men, they don’t say anything bad” is the artist’s most expensive work at the fair.
Faith Ringgold, „They Speak No Evil“, 1963
Source: Faith Ringgold/©2023 VG Bildkunst Bonn
The public interest in her images, textile hangings and soft fabric sculptures inspired by poems, biographical memories and historical events has become less overlooked. Among the ten “Modern Women” on the Frieze Masters Faith Ringgold is probably the most prominent artist: she turned 93 on October 8, 2023.
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