Rare dinosaur bones and rare minerals have lured an international jetset of collectors back to a rebooted Masterpiece London:
with Fine Art Asia and made a presence in Hong Kong in 2019 during the peak of the protests.
“The response is overwhelming,” said Daniel Trinchillo, president of Fine Minerals International, which brought crystallized mineral specimens to Masterpiece London for the first time. The crowd on the opening night was in awe of these colorful pieces, which looked like abstract sculptures. “Many people have never seen mineral specimens presented this way,” said Trinchillo.
Masterpiece’s embrace of the trend seemed to turn out well this year. Crystallized mineral specimens were not the only wonders of the natural world that drew a following. Antiquity dealer David Aaron sold the skull of a triceratops dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period that had been discovered in Wyoming, U.S., in late 2019. It was bought by a private collector for an undisclosed sum. ArtAncient, from London, sold eight pieces of gogottes for between £4,500 to £150,000 each.
U.S. gallery Sundaram Tagore, which also operates in Singapore, sold a Susan Well painting for $97,000, a stainless steel work by Zheng Lu for $25,000, and a work on paper by Hiroshi Senju for $320,000. Tang Contemporary sold three paintings of different scales by Jonas Burgert for €75,000 to €178,000 just hours after the show opened its doors.
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