Searching for the next Picasso, Pollock or Hockney to invest in? We select the 15 best artists around today.
According to Picasso, it took him four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to learn how to paint like a child. An untrained eye cast over ‘Nude, Green Leaves and Bust’ might wonder how its simple lines and poster paint colours could command a record breaking price-tag of $106.5 million, racked up in eight minutes at auction. And now that Pablo and co. have well and truly freed art from its shackles, the layman might well struggle to discern a true contemporary masterpiece from what a kid could knock out in fourth period after milk and biscuits.
So let our guide help you pick out the best artists making the Unmade Beds (not to be confused with the cleaners leaving coke cans in galleries) – before they get too big for their own easels. The following talents have found their own freedom to create on whatever they deem to be a canvas, be it stretched linen, the floor or a Jaguar E-Type. Grab ‘em while they’re fresh – and affordable.