ONLINE AUCTION OF LATIN AMERICAN ART AT CHRISTIE'S

With 82 lots ready for bidding, the well-known auction house Christie's has made a notable amount of Latin American art available to collectors. The auction aired on September 22 and will end on October 5.

“Christie's exclusively online Latin American Art sale features a wonderful selection of art from across the region. From colonial times to the present day, the breadth of this auction provides emerging and seasoned collectors with an exciting opportunity to explore this diverse category. The September sale features a solid selection of important modern and contemporary works by artists such as Jesús Rafael Soto, Francisco Toledo, Angel Botello, Julio Galán, Roberto Burle Marx, Francisco Zúñiga, Belkis Ayón and many more.

Other highlights of the sale include selections from one of the most complete collections of contemporary Cuban art, featuring the work of Tania Bruguera, Los Carpinteros, TONEL, Segundo Planes and Armando Mariño, among others," according to the sale's own introduction. auction.

Once again, the auction house based in Rockefeller Center, New York, draws, in the case of Cuban artists, from the collection of Howard Farber, who has a substantial and iconic collection based fundamentally on the decades of the 80s and 90s. of the last century, as well as of this current one. Since 2022, Christie's itself and Phillips have auctioned works from this curated collection.

To the list highlighted by the auction curators are added the names of:

Abel Barroso/Kcho/Emilio Sánchez/Aimée García/Carlos rodríguez Cárdenas/Gustavo Acosta/Glexis Novoa/Roberto Fabelo/Carlos Estévez/René Francisco and Eduardo Ponjuán/Raúl Martínez/Sandra Ramos/Rubén torres-Llorca/Flavio Garciandía/Sandra Ceballos/ Manuel Piña

Also presented are paintings from the colonial period of the Cuzco school, and anonymous Mexicans; works related to the so-called “indigenism”, sculptures, abstraction and more. As a curious fact, it is obvious that there is no batch of the recently deceased Colombian artist Fernando Botero, usually present at these events. It is also notable that so far the bids have been low on most of the lots presented.