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The first quarter of the art market calendar lacks major sales but that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of action. Here are 17 artists to watch from Q1 sales performance.

Demand for emerging art continues to out-pace supply but the momentum slowed slightly at Sotheby's

A market that favors emerging talent plays to Phillips strength. Phillips Evening sale in London made £30.1 million or $39.5 million with 39 of the 41 lots offered sold. Another six lots were withdrawn pre-sale.

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.

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.

In the midst of a market hungry for contemporary African art, Phillips has partnered with Ghanaian-based art collective Artemartis to present “Birds of a Feather,” on view February 1st through 10th, 2022 at 30 Berkeley Square.

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.

Few artists have as dramatic and visible public debuts as Jammie Holmes did on May 30th, 2020 when he paid for five planes in five separate cities—Detroit, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles and New York—to fly banners of text, each one displaying one of the last five sentences George Floyd uttered when he was murdered five da

We sifted through our database of auction sales for all of the works made since 2000 that were sold in 2021. That gave us a total market value of $1.76 billion for 21st century art sold at public auction at the major auction houses last year. 

The company is promoting Very Peri with the digital crowd, but it’s already well-regarded on the Contemporary art scene