The work of 32-year-old Puerto Rican abstract painter Angel Otero has sold out at Lehmann Maupin’s Art Basel booth. Recent works from 2013, on view at the fair, sold for $35,000 – $40,000 each to European collectors, while another Otero painting, not on view at Basel, sold to an unnamed French foundation for $40,000, according to a gallery representative. Otero’s process-based oil paintings have been gaining steam since he graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009. Lehmann Maupin has been building a global profile for Otero over the past year with showings of his work in places as diverse as Hong Kong, Milan, North Carolina, India, and Turkey. The artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery’s New York space is planned for this September.
Lehmann Maupin also reports the sale of works by Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernández, Shirazeh Houshiary, Liu Wei, Robin Rhode, and Mickalene Thomas that sold to private collections at prices between $20,000 and $145,000.
—Ashton Cooper
(Photos: Billy Farrell Agency (top) and Angel Otero, Courtesy Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong)
