Lisa Brice valuation
Cape Town-born, London-based painter of women in cobalt blue, smoking, painting and posing on their own terms.
Lisa Brice was born in Cape Town in 1968 and studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art there, graduating in 1990; from 1988 to 1991 she was printmaking assistant to the artist Sue Williamson.
What a work by Lisa Brice is worth
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Bio
Lisa Brice was born in Cape Town in 1968 and studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art there, graduating in 1990; from 1988 to 1991 she was printmaking assistant to the artist Sue Williamson. She came to London for a residency at Gasworks in 1998 and settled, and from the late 1990s also spent long periods in Trinidad, where she worked alongside Peter Doig and Chris Ofili. Her early work used print, photography and video; in Britain she turned mainly to oil painting. Her best-known pictures show women in studios, bars and doorways, painted in a cobalt blue squeezed straight from the tube, smoking, painting one another, posing in mirrors, free of the roles of model and muse. The figures are composites of images from magazines, photographs and, above all, art history: Degas, Manet, Vallotton and Picasso, but also Helen Frankenthaler and Charley Toorop, and Olympia's hissing black cat recurs across many pictures. Tate Britain gave her a solo exhibition in 2018.
Her paintings are much sought after, and a work's date and size, and a provenance through Stephen Friedman Gallery, Salon 94 or Thaddaeus Ropac, are what a buyer looks for. She also makes small gouaches and other works on paper, which need careful framing and should not be hung in strong light.
Cape Town, Trinidad and London
KM21 in The Hague held her solo exhibition Smoke and Mirrors in 2020, and the Charleston Trust in Lewes showed her in 2021, the year she was in Mixing It Up: Painting Today at the Hayward Gallery.
Her work is in the collections of Tate, the Whitworth in Manchester, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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