In-demand British painter Flora Yukhnovich, recognized for her florid canvases that draw equally on the traditions of French Rococo, Italian Baroque, and Summary Expressionism, is the most recent artist to signal with Hauser and Wirth.
“Flora is an artist with a exceptional inventive imaginative and prescient who’s defining her personal language of portray to conjure a compelling universe. There may be an unmistakable power and power to her work. She mines artwork historical past whereas making use of conceptual rigour in contemplating a broad sweep of cultural references from 18th-century portray to the present day,” gallery president Iwan Wirth stated in an announcement.
Along with her new illustration at Hauser and Wirth, Yukhnovich has proven with Victoria Miro in London since 2021.
Yukhnovich will make her debut with the mega gallery with a solo present in Los Angeles in 2024. She additionally has a solo present “Ashmolean Now: Flora Yukhnovich x Daniel Crews-Chubb,” opening subsequent month on the Ashmolean, Oxford.
Flora Yukhnovich, Powder Puff (2022). Photograph courtesy of Hauser and Wirth.
Born in London in 1990, Yukhnovich obtained her masters diploma at Metropolis and Guilds of London Artwork College in 2017. She was nonetheless at school when she started to draw a following on Instagram for her swirling, dreamlike pastel compositions, christened with distinctive titles like Heat, Moist N’ Wild, I’ll Have What She’s Having, and Possibly She’s Born With It.
Her first vendor, Matt Watkins of Parafin in London, snapped her up straight out of artwork college after recognizing her work on the social media platform.
Since April 2021, the artist has had 37 tons come up at public sale, all of which have offered, with 10 for over $1 million, in response to the Artnet Value Database. The primary couple had been small works on paper that carried out nicely above their estimates, however hardly made headlines.
Flora Yukhnovich, Lipstick, Lip Gloss, Hickeys Too (2022). Photograph courtesy of Hauser and Wirth.
Then got here the primary oil portray, on provide at Phillips New York that June with a modest $60,000 to $80,000 estimate. It offered for $1.17 million, a rise of 1,374 %. Yukhnovich’s market took off from there, with the £2.25 million ($3 million) I’ll Have What She’s Having at Sotheby’s London, and one other nearly-seven-figure sale at Christie’s London, each in October 2021.
Her present public sale report stands at £2.69 million ($3.6 million), set at Sotheby’s London in March 2022. This 12 months’s outcomes have been barely much less explosive, with the most costly of the six tons supplied thus far promoting for £939,800 ($1.13 million).
“I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of Hauser and Wirth,” Yukhnovich stated in an announcement. “I’ve lengthy admired so most of the gallery’s artists—from painters Maria Lassnig to Pat Steir, to these working extra conceptually, reminiscent of Pipilotti Rist and Roni Horn—and am honored to be amongst such a roster.”
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