Anna Weyant literally saw her life change overnight after her painting “Summertime” was sold for about $ 12,000 at a Christies auction after selling her paintings on beaches.
Has been described as the … “Millennium Botticelli”, the 27 artist Anna Weyant is considered to be a modern star of art.
The girl who literally saw her life change overnight after the sale of her paintings on beaches’s work “Summertime” was bought for about $ 12,000 at Christie’s auction.
That night, as the Wall Street Journal describes, the young artist was too nervous to attend or even watch the live broadcast. So she “hid” in her small apartment in Manhattan and put a special relaxation app on her cell phone until a friend sent her a message with the news.
An impressive fact in the history of Weyant is that she did not have any artistic stimuli in her childhood.
She is the daughter of a lawyer and a district court judge, and as she states, the only paintings in her paternal home were works that her grandfather had bought at bazaars.
She enrolled to attend RISD College, mainly because it was the nearest school in New York that accepted her. She did not immediately declare her specialty, but from her first winter there, she had turned to painting lessons.
Imitating the style of the British painter Lucian Freud, she participated in a painting competition organized by the National Gallery of Canada in the summer after her first year of study – and took a place in the top three.
In her sophomore year, she began painting women and girls who seemed lost in dark fairy tales.
“Being young, confused and nostalgic for my hometown in a new area, I was just scared,” he says. “I remember thinking that if I could convey my fears to the woman I was painting, at least I would have another person talking to me.”
After graduating in 2017, she spent seven months painting at the Chinese Academy of Arts, and believes that the city’s “sepia landscape” influenced her style.
The big opportunity for Weyant came when she returned to New York in the spring of 2018 and started helping the painter Cynthia Talmadge. Talmadge promoted her assistant by posting some of her works on her own Instagram, including a young woman bathing in a bathrobe, shaking one of her legs toward the sky.
Collective exhibitions followed. The next summer of 2019, Rines placed Weyant designs on a beach towel at an art exhibition in the Hamptons and sold some for about $ 400 each.
The same summer, something unexpected happened to the young artist: Art critic Saltz posted on his Instagram account nine samples of her work, which he said he found by searching it on google, attracting 4,352 likes. Without owning any of her work, she said she found her work fascinating.
Until September 2019, discussions intensified about Weyant’s first solo exhibition in New York, entitled “Welcome to the Dollhouse”.
Her paintings of depressed young girls summed up the anxieties of early adolescence. All the works in the exhibition sold for $ 2,000 to $ 12,000 each.
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