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Christie’s owner Francois-Henri Pinault opens his palace of art
Red Canoe, for which Pinault paid £1.76 million at Christie's in 2013, and Rudolf Stingel's captivating portrait of Paula Cooper, the New York dealer, which Pinault bought in 2012 at Art Basel where it was priced at $3 million.In the second group, we have figurative African-diaspora artists who are taking the market by storm, such as Kerry James Marshall and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, who sell for millions. And in the third is France's most successful young artist, Claire Tabouret (born 1981), whose market took off after Pinault first acquired her work eight years ago.After that, she said, her paintings, based on memories of childhood, sold like hot cakes.
