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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Affordable Art Art prices have f
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below. Affordable Art Art prices have f
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You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 1 below.
Affordable Art
Art prices have fallen drastically. The art market is being flooded with good material, much of it from big-name artists, including Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. Many pieces sell for less than you might expect, with items that would have made £20,000 two years ago fetching only £5,000 to £10,000 this autumn, according to Philip Hoffman, chief executive of the Fine Art Fund. Here, we round up what is looking cheap now, with a focus on works in the range of £500 to £10,000.
Picasso is one of the most iconic names in art, yet some of his ceramics and lithographs fetched less than £1,000 each at Bonhams on Thursday. The low prices are because he produced so many of them. However, their value has increased steadily and his works will only become scarcer as examples are lost.
Nic McElhatton, the chairman of Christie’s South Kensington, says that the biggest ’affordable’ category for top artists is ’multiples’ — prints such as screen prints or lithographs in limited editions. In a Christie’s sale this month, examples by Picasso, Matisse, Mir6 and Steinlen sold for less than £5,000 each.
Alexandra Gill, the head of prints at the auction house, says that some prints are heavily hand-worked, or often coloured, by the artist, making them personalised. ’Howard Hodgkin’s are a good example,’ she says. ’There’s still prejudice against prints, but for the artist it was another, equal, medium.’
Mr Hoffman believes that these types of works are currently about as ’cheap as they can get’ and will hold their value in the long run — though he admits that their sheer number means prices are unlikely to rise any time soon.
It can be smarter to buy really good one-offs from lesser-known artists, he adds. A limited budget will not run to the blockbuster names you can obtain with multiples, but it will buy you work by Royal Academicians (RAs) and others whose pieces are held in national collections and who are given long write-ups in the art history books. For example, the Christie’s sale of art from the Lehman Brothers collection on Wednesday will include Valley with cornflowers in oil by Anthony Gross (22 of whose works are held by the Tate), at £1,000 to £1,500. There is no reserve on items with estimates of £1,000 or less, and William Porter, who is in charge of the sale, expects some lots to go for ’very little’. The sale also has oils by the popular Mary Fedden (whose works are often reproduced on greetings cards), including Spanish House and The White Hyacinth, at £7,000 to £10,000 each.
Large works by important Victorian painters are available in this sort of price range, too. These are affordable because their style has come to be considered ’uncool’, but they please a large traditionalist following nonetheless. For example, the sale of 19th-century paintings at Bonhams on Wednesday has a Hampstead landscape by Frederick William Watts at £6,000 to £8,000 and a study of three Spanish girls by John Bagnold Burgess at £4,000 to £6,000. There are proto-social realist works depicting poverty, too, such as Uncared For by Augustus Edwin Mulready, at £10,000 to £15,000.
Smaller auction houses offer a mix of periods and media. Tuesday’s sale at Chiswick Auctions in West London includes a 1968 screen print of Campbell’s Tomato Soup by Andy Warhol, at £6,000 to £8,000, and 44 sketches by Augustus John, at £200 to £800 each. The latter have been restored after the artist tore them up. Meanwhile, the paintings and furniture sale at Duke’s of Dorchester on Thursday has a coloured block print of Acrobats at Play by Marc Chagall, at £100 to £200, and a lithograph of a mother and child by Henry Moore, at £500 to £700. A group of five watercolour landscape studies by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot is up at £1,500 to £3,000.
Affordable works from lesser-known artists and younger markets are less safe, but they have the potential to offer greater rewards if you catch an emerging trend. Speculating on such trends is high-risk, so is worthwhile only if you like what you buy (you get something beautiful to keep, whatever happens), can afford to lose the capital and enjoy the necessary research.
A trend could be based on a country or region. China has rocketed, but other Asian and Middle Eastern markets have yet to really emerge. Mr Horwich mentions some 1970s Iraqi paintings that he sold this year in Dubai. ’They are part of a sophisticated scene that remains little-known.’ Mr Hoffman tips Turkey and the Middle East. Meanwhile, the Sotheby’s Impressionist and modern art sale in New York features a 1962 oil painting by the Vietnamese artist Vu Cao Dam, at $8,000 to $12,000 (£5,088 to £7,632). The painting shows two girls boating in traditional ao dai dresses.
A further way of making money is to try to spot talent in younger artists. The annual Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park provides a chance to buy from 170 contemporary galleries. Or you could gamble on the future fame trajectory of an established artist’s subject. For example, a Gerald Laing screen print of The Kiss (2007) showing Amy Winehouse and her ex-husband is up for £4,700 at the Multiplied fair.
Questions 1-5
Complete the table below.
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.
选项
答案
Picasso/Pablo Picasso
解析
由表格的列名Example of artists可知前两题应填入艺术家的名字。由于文章首段有提到毕加索的全名,故第1题答案也可填入Pablo Picasso。由列名Reason for low price可知第3、4题涉及画作价格低的原因,此处应通过对应的作者和画作进行定位。由列名Name of work/Type of art form可知第5题应填入作品名称或作品类型。由Vu Cao Dam定位至倒数第二段倒数第二句,该处没有提到作品名称,但有提到作品类型oil painting,故为答案。
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