{"id":175,"date":"2008-10-09T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-10-09T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T14:13:00","slug":"the-problem-with-brown-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"The problem with brown paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just in case you were laboring under the delusion that wealthy collectors buy expensive contemporary art at auction, impelled by their unerring connoisseurship and in-depth art-historical knowledge, Amy Cappellazzo, quoted in Sarah Thornton’s fascinating new book Seven Days in the Art World<\/i>, will put you right. <\/p>\n

According to the co-director of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, cheerful colours are the thing: “Brown paintings don’t sell as well as blue or red paintings.” Then there’s the medium: “Collectors get confused and concerned about things that plug in.” Finally, size matters (doesn’t it always): “Anything larger than the standard dimension of a Park Avenue elevator generally cuts out a certain sector of the market.” This is confirmed by a collector, speaking anonymously to Thornton during a sale about Warhol’s Mustard Race Riot: “It’s a great historical piece, but it’s not a very appealing colour and it’s too large to hang easily in one’s home.”<\/p>\n

Quoted wholesale from the Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just in case you were laboring under the delusion that wealthy collectors buy expensive contemporary art at auction, impelled by their unerring connoisseurship and in-depth art-historical knowledge, Amy Cappellazzo, quoted in Sarah Thornton’s fascinating new book Seven Days in the Art World, will put you right. According to the co-director of postwar and contemporary art at Christie’s, cheerful colours are the thing: “Brown paintings don’t sell as well as blue or red paintings.” Then there’s the medium: “Collectors get confused and concerned about things that plug in.” Finally, size matters (doesn’t it always): “Anything larger than the standard dimension of…<\/p>\n

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