Lady Pink valuation
Ecuadorian-born American artist who painted New York subway trains from 1979 and went on to canvas and murals.
Lady Pink (born 1964) was born Sandra Fabara in Ambato, Ecuador, and moved to Astoria in Queens, New York, at the age of seven.
What a work by Lady Pink is worth
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Bio
Lady Pink (born 1964) was born Sandra Fabara in Ambato, Ecuador, and moved to Astoria in Queens, New York, at the age of seven. She began writing graffiti in 1979, attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan, and was given the name Pink by the writer Seen, adding Lady later. One of the earliest women painting subway trains, she formed the all-female crew Ladies of the Arts in 1980, appeared in Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant's book Subway Art, and in 1983 played a leading role in the film Wild Style. She worked with Jenny Holzer, including exhibitions at Fashion Moda in the Bronx, and moved from trains to canvas and to murals. Her work is in collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and Tate Modern.
What a seller is likely to hold is a painting on canvas, in spray paint or acrylic, or a work on paper, since the trains and walls themselves rarely survive. A buyer will want the date, the title, the signature and the history of the work, especially for paintings of the 1980s, and a gallery invoice or a letter from the artist helps. Canvases should be checked for flaking paint, abrasion and fading, and works on paper for fading and staining.
At a glance
- Born
- 1964, Ambato
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