Art buyers are falling in love with forgotten creators
Melanie Gerlis, Financial Times
February 2025
The next wave of overlooked female surrealist on the market suggest buyers can’t get enough of the previously forgotten. While recent years have seen prices shoot up for dreamy work by artists such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo – neither in the limelight for decades – forthcoming sales and exhibitions are of even newer names from the 20th century. Up next at Alison Jacques’s London gallery is a show of her latest charge, British artist Maeve Gilmore (1917-1983), followed by Jacques’s recent signing, Bona de Mandiargues (1926-2000).