Pieter-Jan de Paepe chats with Nick Goss about isolation, connection and his latest paintings at Perrotin Paris
Fernando Amorsolo, Still life with mangoes, sugar apples and langsat (1935), sold for $294,800, more than seven times the low estimate at Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen. Oil On Canvas Laid On Board, 49.0 x 66.0cm. The work has not been traded before.
Fernando Amorsolo, A young girl sitting by a river bank (1935), sold for $168,400, more than four times the low estimate at Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen. Oil On Canvas Laid On Board, 51.0 x 66.0cm. The work has not been traded before.
Peder Severin Kroyer, "Fru Marie Krøyer i Haven paa Skagen". Marie Krøyer in the garden in Skagen (1892), sold for $561,500, at Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen. Oil On Panel, 23.0 x 33.0cm. The work has not been traded before.
Fernando Amorsolo, Harvesters in the field. Stormy weather approaching (1933), sold for $103,900, more than three and a half times the low estimate at Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, Copenhagen. Oil On Canvas Laid On Board, 33.0 x 48.0cm. The work has not been traded before.
Contemporary art collectors Don and Mera Rubell made Miami history when they opened their eponymous museum in 1993, several years after moving to the city from New York.
For centuries now, painting has been a human expression of emotion, story and the zeitgeist, if you will.