This year, they sold Tony Cragg's wt (extended)(2016) for # 385,000 ($ 477,960), Carmen Herrera's
Cadmium orange with blue (1989) for $ 600,000, and Laure Prouvost's The Hidden Paintings Grandma Improved - We Are Coming Out (2017) for # 30,000 ($ 37,200).
Other British galleries exhibiting were Ronchini Gallery, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Blain Southern, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Lisson who reportedly sold work by Tony Cragg WT (extended)(2016) for # 385,000 ($ 477,960), Carmen Herrera's
Cadmium orange with blue (1989) for $ 600,000, and Laure Prouvost's The Hidden Paintings Grandma Improved — We Are Coming Out (2017) for # 30,000 ($ 37,200).
Not exact matches
However, in a discipline long dominated by brilliant but toxic
cadmium yellows and
oranges, chrome reds and lead whites, many painters are seeking alternative solutions,
with the idea that what is healthy and sustainable for themselves will, for the most part, be healthy and sustainable for the environment.
I still use pretty much the same palette I used when I first started painting,
with a few additions over the years: Cremnitz white, raw umber, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, quinacridone blue, burnt sienna, lemon yellow,
cadmium yellow, Indian yellow,
cadmium orange,
cadmium or other warm green, Veronese green, vert Aubusson or pthalo green, a purple,
cadmium red, alizarin crimson.
Extra rich and fully opaque, our
Cadmium Yellow Deep is a vibrant light
orange with luminous golden yellow tints.
Finally, create ranges of
orange, using each possible combination of the red and yellow co-primaries, starting
with the red and yellow that have
orange overtones -
cadmium red and
cadmium yellow.
And that it is possible to lay scarlet next to
orange, next to
cadmium red, next to pink, next to black and bring the whole thing to life
with a few patches of bare canvas and white.
Each of the approximately 20 works will share a single colour which for this season, is Dr. Ph. Martin's
Cadmium Red, a red
with an evocative 1970s
orange hue.