During containment, re-containment and the vaccine race, the battle for the “
Estates
” continues.
In the booming contemporary art market, these coveted estates of historical artists, pledges of legitimacy, longevity, museum exhibitions and associated ratings, have become gold mines and guarantees facing a future. uncertain.
International galleries are therefore vying for them bitterly, behind in courteous manners, as contemporary art needs masters and references to continue its momentum.
The pandemic, which a priori puts the art world on pause, does not interrupt this conquest.
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Thus, the couple of gallery owners Iwan Wirth and Manuela Wirth, Marc Payot, co-presidents of Hauser & Wirth, announce that the all-powerful Swiss gallery now represents the Estate of François Morellet, the most French of artists, who died on May 10. 2016 at 90 years old.
True strategists of a world of art that never ceases to think about itself in order to survive, that is to say
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