Lucy Bull, Trey Abdella and Ayako Rokkaku Sell in Phillips Hong Kong – RisePEI

In a night sale devoted to fashionable and up to date artwork held by Phillips in Hong Kong on Tuesday that introduced in $27 million, Lucy Bull, Trey Abdella and Ayako Rokkaku had been among the many choose few artists who grabbed consideration when their works soared previous expectations.

As at all times, works by younger up to date artists, to whom artwork speculative patrons are identified to be drawn, remained in excessive demand throughout Phillips Hong Kong sale. Different works by established names like George Condominium, Lee Ufan, and Pierre Soulages had been among the many highest sellers of the night time, going for costs above $1 million.

However Bull and Abdella had been among the many handful of younger artists who made their public sale debuts in Asia this week. Entrances like these into Hong Kong gross sales usually spur consideration amongst bidders. In a press release following the sale, Phillips Hong Kong specialist Isaure de Viel Castel, mentioned the home aimed to place a highlight on artists of a “new era,” who she described as “ultra-contemporary.”

Lucy Bull’s portray 8:50, a vibrant abstraction executed on an elongated horizontal canvas, set a brand new document for the 32-year-old artist whose works have been in comparison with these of Max Ernst and Howard Hodgkin. Bought by an Asian collector, it went for HK$11.4 million ($1.5 million), for greater than seven instances its excessive estimate of HK$1.5 million ($192,000).

The sale follows Bull’s breakout present at David Kordansky in 2021, on the heels of different solos shows in Arles and Los Angeles that noticed her massive scale canvases attracting collectors’ consideration. She got here on the public sale circuit solely simply final month, when Sotheby’s offered her 2019 abstraction Particular Visitor for $907,200, the place it offered for 15 instances its $60,000 estimate.

Alongside Bull, a 2019 portray by Trey Abdella set a brand new document. Throughout the sale, Some Issues Aren’t Value Ready For (2019), by which a cartoonish bald determine is proven gauging out his personal eyes in opposition to a blurry workplace scene, offered for HK$2.6 million ($337,100). The milestone value comes forward of Abdella’s first institutional solo present, on the X Museum in Beijing, scheduled to happen in 2022. He was the topic of his first solo present at König gallery’s Berlin location in 2020 and one other at its Seoul outpost the next 12 months.

Like Bull and Abdella, Japanese artist Ayako Rokkaku’s Untitled (2019) took an analogous course. Performed in pink-hues with a finger portray approach, showing within the canvas is one among Rokkaku’s barely seen Kawaii-inspired adolescent ladies that the artist repeats by means of out her work. The portray offered for HK$8.1 million ($1 million), for nearly 4 instances its low estimate at Phillips—driving the momentum gained from its showcase on the Netherlands’ Museum Jan van der Togt the identical 12 months it was executed.