May
18
Charmed I’m sure
The British artist Charming Baker has caused a sensation in New York where Damien Hirst has been buying up his work in bulk.
- Colin Gleadell, ‘Art Sales: the British artist charming his way to the top’, Telegraph.co.uk, 18 May 2010, <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/7736004/Art-Sales-the-British-artist-charming-his-way-to-the-top.html>
AW: Presumably this interest in Baker’s work, if this example is anything to go by, is because of its almost-literal combination of Francis Bacon, Damien Hirst, Gerhart Richter and Sigmar Polke. Or maybe its because everyone loves ‘the honest artisan from working-class Yorkshire’ who ’ left school at 15 to dig up roads’.
