Julian Schnabel valuation
American painter of the 1980s plate paintings, and director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Julian Schnabel (born 1951) was born in Brooklyn, New York, moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas, in 1965, and studied at the University of Houston.
What a work by Julian Schnabel is worth
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Bio
Julian Schnabel (born 1951) was born in Brooklyn, New York, moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas, in 1965, and studied at the University of Houston. He was admitted to the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he studied from 1973 to 1975. His plate paintings, large pictures built on broken ceramic plates, brought him wide attention in the early 1980s, shown first by Mary Boone and from 1984 by the Pace Gallery. He has also painted on velvet, tarpaulins and found fabrics, and made sculpture. Since the 1990s he has directed films, among them Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000) and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), for which he won the award for best director at Cannes.
Paintings, works on paper and prints come to market, and the plate paintings form a group of their own. Their weight and broken surfaces make condition, packing and shipping a serious matter: a buyer will want to know that no plates are loose or missing and that any repair was done properly. For all paintings the date, the gallery and the history of the work matter, and prints should be identified by edition, number and publisher.
At a glance
- Born
- 1951, Brooklyn
- Movement
- Neo-expressionism
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