Lynne Drexler, “Flowered Hundred.” Credit: Christie's Images LTD, 2025
Call it the ‘‘rediscovery industrial complex”: Art advisers and dealers are turning to the past to discover tomorrow’s blue-chip stars.
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"Other dealers approach rediscovery work methodically. In the early days of New York’s Berry Campbell Gallery in 2013, the founders, Christine Berry and Martha Campbell, visited the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in Washington to pore over the historical records and photographs of dealers, including Betty Parsons, who popularized Abstract Expressionism. They circled the names of artists they did not know and went on to show several. Since then, figures like Alice Baber, a postwar painter of biomorphic watercolors, and Bernice Bing, an Asian American artist from the Bay Area, have seen their auction prices grow by leaps and bounds."
— Julia Halperin
June 4, 2025
