Fiona Rae valuation
Hong Kong-born British painter of crowded, energetic abstraction, and one of the Freeze generation.
Fiona Rae (born 1963) was born in Hong Kong, lived in Indonesia as a child and moved to England in 1970.
What a work by Fiona Rae is worth
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Bio
Fiona Rae (born 1963) was born in Hong Kong, lived in Indonesia as a child and moved to England in 1970. She studied at Croydon College of Art and at Goldsmiths College from 1984 to 1987, and in 1988 took part in Freeze, the exhibition Damien Hirst organised in London Docklands that launched the Young British Artists. She was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1991, was elected to the Royal Academy in 2002, the year she painted the ten-metre triptych Shadowland for the restaurant at Tate Modern, and served as a Tate Artist Trustee from 2005 to 2009. In 2011 she was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy, one of the first two women to hold a professorship there since its foundation in 1768. Her paintings combine gestural brushwork, flat shapes, lettering and motifs borrowed from cartoons and graphic design.
Paintings come to market alongside works on paper and a smaller number of prints. A buyer will want the date and title, the gallery the work came from, and for prints the edition size and number. Her surfaces combine thick and thin paint, and sometimes other materials, so condition matters: look for cracking, abrasion, dirt on unvarnished passages and damage from framing or storage.
At a glance
- Born
- 1963, Hong Kong
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