British gallery White Dice now represents the archive of late American Summary Expressionist painter Lynne Drexler exterior the US, after market demand for the artist’s work erupted final yr, resulting in seven-figure public sale outcomes.
Drexler was born in 1928 in Virginia and within the mid-Nineteen Fifties moved to New York, the place she was a pupil of Hans Hofmann and later Robert Motherwell. She married John Hultberg, who was a way more established painter. Drexler moved to Monhegan, a distant island off the coast of Maine in 1983 and continued to work as an artist portray sea scenes and collaborating in reveals at native galleries. Drexler died in 1999, and stacks of work and works on paper have been discovered at her dwelling.
Lynne Drexler, Flowered Hundred (1962) Courtesy White Dice
Lengthy ignored by the artwork market institution in favour of her male contemporaries, two of Drexler’s vibrant, mosaic-like work far exceeded their estimates at high-profile auctions final yr. Flowered Hundred (1962) bought for $1.19m with charges in opposition to a $40,000 to $60,000 estimate at Christie’s New York in March 2022. Two months later, the artist’s public sale report was reset when Herbert’s Backyard (1960) fetched $1.5m with charges in opposition to a $70,000 to $100,000 estimate after some 20 bidders pushed up the worth, additionally at Christie’s New York. Additionally in 2022, Drexler’s work was the topic of a joint gallery present at Berry Campbell, which is able to proceed to characterize the Drexler property within the US, and Mnuchin Gallery in New York. Drexler’s work has remained in demand since then, although her market has largely been centred within the US.
“It is extremely thrilling for White Dice to have the chance to advertise the legacy of Lynne Drexler on the worldwide stage,” Sukanya Rajaratnam, White Dice’s world director of strategic market initiatives, mentioned in an announcement. “The artist’s early work from the Sixties have already garnered a lot consideration, nevertheless there are lots of subsequent our bodies of labor which are equally as modern and have but to be offered to world audiences in a considerate and rigorous method.”
Beginning in November 2024, White Dice will current solo exhibitions of Drexler’s work on the gallery’s areas in London and Hong Kong. One in every of Drexler’s uncommon massive canvases, Maui Melody (1968), might be displayed at White Dice’s sales space at Artwork Basel Miami Seashore subsequent week.
Maui Melody (1968) Courtesy White Dice
