Monday, February 08, 2010

Reference buying

I attended the charity auction at The Breeder Gallery this past Saturday organised for Athens Pride.
The starting price for the auction was 300 euros for each work. It is so great that people wanted to give amongst the crisis.
It also gave a glimpse of the buying profile some of the Greek collectors have and i think a representative of the art taste in Greece at the moment.
I have to say that in Greece painting still holds the fort. Mantalina Psoma and Poka Yio exceeded by 300% and 700% respectively their prices.
As did Kalup Linzy the new artist member of The Breeder. Yorgos Sapountzis nominee for the DESTE award recently also had a high hammer price.
So painting is the drug of choice still..which is good for us photography lovers.

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