Anna Weyant, new art phenomenon in New York

2022-11-22T11:56:03.040Z

'Botticelli Millennial' superstar between auctions, Gagosian exhibition (ANSA) NEW YORK - The phenomenon of the moment in the art market in New York is called Anna Weyant and is 27 years old. One of her paintings sold at Sotheby's in May for 1.6 million dollars, another at Christie's for 1.2 million dollars last week and until Christmas an exhibition on Madison Avenue at the Gagosian which is representing her this year: Anna is certainly on the crest of the wave. "It loo

NEW YORK - The phenomenon of the moment in the art market in New York is called Anna Weyant and is 27 years old.

One of her paintings sold at Sotheby's in May for 1.6 million dollars, another at Christie's for 1.2 million dollars last week and until Christmas an exhibition on Madison Avenue at the Gagosian which is representing her this year: Anna is certainly on the crest of the wave.

"It looks like a fairy tale of our time," wrote the Smithsonian Magazine of the young Canadian whose paintings sold for $400 three years ago.

"Imagine Botticelli as a Millennial, whose porcelain-skinned beauties lift their legs in a Victoria Beckham 'meme' or wear gold necklaces that read 'Run or Die,'" in the words of the Wall Street Journal on portraits of girls and young women who evoke, according to the 'New York Times', "

The paintings evoke the 'great masters' of Dutch art in style with a pinch of surreal irony in the subjects and concerns à la Balthus or John Currin.

Weyant is currently the youngest artist represented by Larry Gagosian's empire, a "complication" as the Wall Street Journal has suggested, because for the last year the 77-year-old gallerist would become her life partner.

Gagosian told the 'Wall Street Journal' that "she doesn't speak the jargon of art" and that he, as in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, is only "trying to protect her from all the bad wolves".

If Anna is on a dizzying ascent, is Larry's sunset time approaching?

Without direct heirs, the most

The most powerful gallerist in the world - turnover estimated at one billion dollars, 19 offices in seven countries around the world including Italy - announced the first steps towards the succession last week.

"I want my gallery to go on indefinitely", she explained, specifying that she has no intention of retiring and denying rumors of a possible takeover by LVMH.