Fabian Perez valuation
Tango, cigarettes, balconies and rain, painted from a childhood spent above his father's bar.
Fabian Perez was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and grew up above the bars and clubs his father ran, which is the whole subject of the work: figures in evening dress on balconies at night, tango dancers, women smoking alone, men in hats under streetlights, painted in warm artificial light against deep shadow.
What a work by Fabian Perez is worth
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Bio
Fabian Perez was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and grew up above the bars and clubs his father ran, which is the whole subject of the work: figures in evening dress on balconies at night, tango dancers, women smoking alone, men in hats under streetlights, painted in warm artificial light against deep shadow. He left Argentina in his twenties, spent years in Japan, and settled in Los Angeles. He was appointed official artist for the 2012 London Olympics by one of the official programmes, and shows principally through commercial galleries rather than the museum system.
This is a market built on published editions rather than on auction, and that is the first thing to understand about it. The great majority of what is held by owners is a limited-edition giclee on canvas or paper, produced in numbered runs, frequently hand-embellished by the studio and sold with a certificate; original oils on canvas exist and sit well above them. Retail prices from galleries and secondary values diverge considerably in this segment, and owners are routinely surprised by that. Documentation from the original publisher is essential.
At a glance
- Born
- 1967, Buenos Aires
Neo-emotionalism, and the UK publisher
Perez calls his manner neo-emotionalism, and his own imprint published Neo-Emotionalism: A Ten Year Retrospective in 2013, followed by further books of his work. In Britain his limited editions are published by DeMontfort Fine Art and sold through a wide network of commercial galleries.
For an edition, the publisher's certificate, the edition number and whether the canvas has been hand-embellished identify it, and they should be recorded exactly; for an original painting, the paperwork from the gallery that sold it is the reference.
Campana, the Latin Grammys and Living Legends
Perez grew up in Campana, a town near Buenos Aires, where his father ran nightclubs and his mother taught school and sang, and as a young man he trained in football and martial arts before leaving home at twenty. In 2009 he was named official artist of the tenth Latin Grammy Awards, in 2010 one of his paintings was used to advertise the Winter Olympics, and in 2011 he designed the LG trophy for the Copa América.
His series Living Legends is made up of commissioned portraits, among them Pope Francis, Mauricio Macri, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, Rafael Nadal and Lionel Messi. His books include All the Romance We Left Behind, first published in 2009. In Britain his work is sold through commercial galleries such as Clarendon Fine Art in London and Whitewall Galleries, and the selling gallery's invoice belongs with the work.
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