{"id":566143,"date":"2025-11-12T20:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566143\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:09:12","slug":"consignor-of-amoako-boafo-portrait-of-thelma-golden-is-jesse-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/566143\/","title":{"rendered":"Consignor of Amoako Boafo Portrait of Thelma Golden Is Jesse Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAn Amoako Boafo painting listed for sale in Phillips<\/a>\u2018s upcoming modern and contemporary art day sale next week was consigned by actor and ARTnews Top 200 collector Jesse Williams<\/a>, ARTnews has learned.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2017 oil on paper work Red Dress measures 52 3\/8 inches by 56 inches and depicts Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of New York\u2019s newly reopened Studio Museum in Harlem<\/a>. It carries an estimate of $150,000 to $200,000.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe work was featured in the 2022 Boafo solo exhibition, \u201cSoul of Black Folks,\u201d at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. In the catalogue, Williams is listed <\/a>as the lender of the work; in Phillips\u2019s lot listing<\/a>, the provenance states that the current owner bought the work directly from the artist.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBoafo\u2019s market has cooled considerably from its Covid-era peak. The artist has had six works sell for over $1 million, with the record set at Christie\u2019s Hong Kong in December 2021 at $3.4 million. The most recent sale to hit seven figures happened at Sotheby\u2019s New York in May 2022 for the 2019 painting Tonica and Adia, which sold for $1.13 million. More recently, Boafo\u2019s paintings have sold more in the $100,000 to $300,000 range.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time of late that a work once in Williams\u2019s collection hit the block at Phillips. In May 2024, the auction house sold <\/a>a 10-inch by 10-inch figurative portrait by\u00a0Noah Davis<\/a>\u00a0titled Untitled (Boy with Glasses) in its modern and contemporary evening sale.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat work was included an exhibition of work by Davis and his older brother, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph called \u201cYoung Blood\u201d at the\u00a0Frye Art Museum<\/a>\u00a0in Seattle in 2016. In installation photos of the exhibition, a photo credit line for Untitled (Boy with Glasses) reads \u201cCollection of Aryn Drakelee-Williams and Jesse Williams<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

\n\tA spokesperson for Williams told ARTnews at the time that the Davis work was actually consigned by Williams\u2019s ex-wife, Aryn Drake-Lee. The pair collected art from the African diaspora prolifically, with ARTnews naming Williams a collector to watch<\/a> in 2021. At the time, he said he owned about 250 works. Williams and Drake-Lee divorced in 2020 and the Davis work went to Drake-Lee, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Phillips spokesperson declined to comment on the new consignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amoako Boafo painting listed for sale in Phillips\u2018s upcoming modern and contemporary art day sale next week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[52324,4021,4020,4022,77,180018,79339,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-566143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-artnews-top-200-collectors","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jesse-williams","14":"tag-phillips","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115538543586896937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}