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artnet AG: artnet Auctions Offers Rare Richard Hambleton Work Amidst Surge
in the Late Artist's Market
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artnet Auctions Offers Rare Richard Hambleton Work Amidst Surge in the Late
Artist's Market
The auctions platform is a key player in Hambleton's growing market
New York, June 15, 2018-artnet Auctions is pleased to offer one of the most
important works created by artist Richard Hambleton as part of its Urban Art
sale, live for bidding now through June 27. Hambleton originally made this
untitled triptych for the Mauermuseum located at Berlin's Checkpoint
Charlie, which was the sole point of crossing for allied forces at the
Berlin Wall during the Cold War. Split down the center like Germany itself,
this work is immersed not only in geopolitical history but also Hambleton's
own, as it was finished around the same time that the artist famously added
his signature Shadowmen to both sides of the Berlin Wall.
The work comes to auction both amidst an increase in demand for Hambleton's
artwork and following artnet Auctions' sale of the artist's Jumping Shadow
Man, which sold for $108,000 (including Buyer's Premium) in May 2018, and is
now Hambleton's third most expensive artwork to ever sell at auction.
According to the artnet Price Database, seven of the artist's top 10 auction
results have been set in 2017 and 2018.
The artist's market began heating up in 2010, spurred by the artist's
sold-out solo show, which toured international cities that same year. The
show was the artist's first foray into public life since the mid-1980s, when
Hambleton began leading a more reclusive life.
While demand for Hambleton works increased steadily from then on, it saw a
dramatic increase in 2017-the same year of his untimely passing, as well as
the release of a biographical documentary about him entitled Shadowman and
his inclusion in The Museum of Modern Art's 2017 show "Club 57: Film,
Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983."
The demand for Hambleton's work now reflects his legacy as an artist whose
art was once more valuable than Jean-Michel Basquiat, who pioneered street
art, and who continues to have an impact on contemporary artists working
today.
"Richard was a conceptual artist and his art was to evoke a reaction," said
Kristine Woodward of Woodward Gallery, who represented the artist. "In the
1980s, he put his large black shadowy silhouette figures on city streets. It
was like a repetitive visual icon of different shadowy figures and if you
lived here at the time you became very familiar with them."
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