{"id":235680,"date":"2025-09-18T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235680\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:06:19","slug":"how-much-to-pay-for-emerging-artists-work-art-adviser-says-15000-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/235680\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much to Pay for Emerging Artists’ Work? Art Adviser Says $15,000 Max"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThere has been much discussion lately about what many consider inflated prices for works by young and emerging artists, but few reporters\u2014or even members of the trade\u2014are willing to put numbers to it. Artnet News editor-in-chief Naomi Rea did, in a column<\/a> ahead of Art Basel in June, writing, \u201cNow, $30,000 gets you a r\u00e9sum\u00e9-light emerging artist. The art market has lost its grip on price-setting\u2014and dealers must recalibrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut how much should a collector pay then?<\/p>\n

\n\tLongtime adviser and Baer Faxt founder Josh Baer has just offered his answer. In the latest edition of his free No Reserve <\/a>newsletter, Baer gives advice on what he calls \u201cultra-emerging\u201d artists, writing that the most a collector should pay for a large work in a first solo show by such an artist at \u201ca reputable gallery\u201d is $15,000, and $5,000 for a small piece. (What is an ultra-emerging artist? Baer\u2019s example is one just out of school: \u201ce.g. the MFA graduate from Yale,\u201d he writes. As for what qualifies as large or small, Baer told me over text that he means, say, 60 by 40 inches versus 20 by 16.)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cA new collector needs about an additional $25,000 of pre-tax, discretionary income to buy a work around $15k\u2014kind of like what a week in the Bahamas would cost,\u201d Baer elaborates in his newsletter. As for would-be speculators, that time has passed. \u201cThe stories of collectors buying their Jean-Michel Basquiat for $7,500 in the \u201970s\/\u201980s and selling for $35 million now (I\u2019m old enough to know many of these people) is just not going to happen,\u201d Baer added.<\/p>\n

\n\tLA gallerist Charlie James told ARTnews he thinks Baer is spot-on with both scale and pricing. \u201cI think these thresholds are useful,\u201d James said. \u201cI think $15,000 for a large work might actually be a little high.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAn experienced collector of emerging and ultra-emerging artists offered a different perspective. \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting thought,\u201d he said, \u201cbut pricing in the art market can\u2019t really be codified. So many factors go into it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been much discussion lately about what many consider inflated prices for works by young and emerging…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":235681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[126619,648,1032,1033,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-235680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art-prices","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115223801634019503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}