Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery Hilary Pecis Executed on a wood panel

Executed on a wood panel in a basement studio in Annina Nosei’s SoHo gallery

a recurring boat ideograph represents passage and exile

It also reproduces Baselitz’s inscription on the back of his painting The Painter in His Bed (2022)

This book was published on the occasion of Alex Israel × Snapchat at the Bass Museum of Art

Prince visited the area to seek out quintessential viewpoints established by preceding photographers

Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery Hilary Pecis Executed on a wood panelTrading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery is an illustrated survey by Valentina Castellani that traces the evolution of the Western art market from the medieval era to the present day. In thirteen chapters, Castellani shows that art and commerce have been linked throughout history since the Middle Ages, analyzing how the social, cultural, religious, and economic circumstances of different periods have defined models of art