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With an auction circuit hungry for both new names and figurative works, Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz’s stardom is no surprise. This week at Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale, her 2019 painting Portrait of a Lady (After Louis Leopold Boilly) sold for $1,560,000.

The mystery about C.J. Hendry’s new art installation as pop-up gallery at an abandoned church in East London that opens today isn’t why she renovated the local church exclusively for one event.

Sotheby’s and Christie’s dueling target paintings might cause a market overhaul for the Color Field painter. Though his paintings sit on the same textbook pages as Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland’s prices on the secondary market lag behind his peers.

Ayako Rokkaku is a self-taught Japanese artist whose market continues to trend upward heading into the 2022 spring auction season. Rokkaku’s colorful paintings, often created with her bare hands in lieu of a brush, have been gaining momentum in Asia since her auction debut in late 2008.

Indiana-born, Brooklyn-based artist Robert Nava has seen steady momentum on the secondary market since his mid-pandemic auction debut in July of 2020. Collectors love his imaginative mixed-media creatures. The fantasy animals first showed up at NADA Miami and at the Dallas Art Fair displayed at Los Angeles’s Night Gallery.

An artist with a difficult past and the subject of an HBO documentary, Gianni Arone constructs a reference-heavy world through his emotive character NFTs.

Already achieving six-figure prices, South African painter Cinga Samson has two works in London’s sales with attractive estimates. Here’s how he rose to prominence.

Danica Lundy depicts unsentimental—and uncanny—memories of youth at Magenta Plains. Her solo exhibition of Lundy’s high-impact oil paintings will be on view through March 10th, 2022. 

The Frick’s “Living Histories” series provokes strong reactions as the contemporary Queer painter takes on Holbein

Aboudia, the artist from the Cote d’Ivoire who first came to prominence after the 2010 civil war in that country, had a spectacular year on the art market in 2021. His public sales totaled more than $7.45 million over 81 works that made an average price of $92,000.

With a gallery show opening in Hong Kong, the Australian’s Instagram-fueled market is taking off.

Lauren Quin’s journey from graduation to institutional acquisitions was swift. In early 2021, the ICA Miami purchased Quin’s 2021 painting Cure for Lucretia not even two years after the artist received her MFA from Yale.