Marshall Arts: Prices Zoom For Kerry James
A month after the rapper Sean “P Diddy†Combs paid a record $21.1m for Kerry James Marshall’s 1997 painting, Past Times, two works by the Chicago-based artist flew off the walls during the VIP preview of Art Basel this week. Jack Shainman Gallery sold a new painting, Vignette (The Kiss) (2018), while David Zwirner sold Vignette #12 (2008); both pieces went to private US collectors. Although willing to give prices for other works on their stands, both dealers cited the “sensitive nature†of pricing Marshall’s paintings since the record-breaking May auction in New York and declined to give figures. Sources estimate the combined value of the two works to be around $10 million.
