Alighiero e Boetti, Cinque x cinque venticinque (1986), sold for $64,200, more than one and a half times the low estimate at Dorotheum, Vienna. Embroidery on canvas, 22.5 x 22.5cm. The work has been traded once in the past.
Edo Murtic, Untitled (1984), sold for $36,700, more than seven and a half times the low estimate at Dorotheum, Vienna. Oil on canvas, 116.0 x 146.0cm. The work has not been traded before.
Gino Severini, Still Life with Blue Fruit Bowl, Artichokes, and Pipe (1939), which had a $35,300 to $47,000 estimate, was bought-in at Dorotheum, Vienna. Oil on panel, 50.5 x 61.0cm. The work has been traded 3 times in the past.
The smaller something becomes, the more appealing we tend to find it – an extrapolation of the phenomenon ethologist Konrad Lorenz named ‘baby schema’, in which features commonly seen in human babies and young animals that trigger an innate caregiving response, tapping into our need for comfort, identity, connection and control.
It is so fascinating to see how Lee Kit @lee_kit is ever evolving in terms of image making, pictorial surfaces and sensibility towards light. So beautiful, elegant, vulnerable but connected with firm beliefs. @shugoarts.
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