Art Miami director Nick Korniloff with the maestro, who sold six major works during this important contemporary art fair, pictured at the home of prominent Florida collectors Bob and Florence Werner.
Hot on the heels of his November SOFA CHICAGO sale of a major installation for a quarter-of-a-million dollars, the Italian glass master Lino Tagliapietra triumphed at one of the most important contemporary art fairs, where six of his works sold at the 2010 Art Miami this past weekend. While his sales prices may have been a fraction of the figures fetched by work by some of the most-established 20th-century artists such as Alexander Calder (whose work Smeary sold for $550,000 at Mark Borghi Fine Art) or Helen Frankenthaler (whose painting sold for $475,000 at Scott White Contemporary Art), Tagliapietra’s prices, and the number of sales, caught the attention of Internet publications such as artdaily.org reporting on the fair. Continue reading
