What the relationship between black collectors and black artists says about the future of the art world
telegraph.co.ukYoung, Gifted and Black’. “I wanted the collection to do something that was bigger than just serve as a repository of beautiful artworks to live with.” Some of the works in his collection include art by Kerry James Marshall (whose painting, ‘Past Times’, sold at Sotheby for $21.1m in 2018) and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (whose painting ‘The Hours Behind You’ sold at Sotheby's for $1.6m in 2017).Lumpkin isn’t the only black collector to think strategically about the background of the artists.
According to Ellen Stone, CEO of art photography agency Public Offerings, black collectors tend to focus on black artists because they want to see themselves in the work. “You’re much more likely to connect with something which reflects or speaks to your own.
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