Last weekend, the "2022 Wearable Art Gala" was held in Santa Monica, California, USA. The party
is held every year, and the organizer is Tina Knowles, the mother of Beyoncé .
She has collected many niche and exquisite works of art and invited American celebrities and wealthy people to come and bid for auction.
(The Beyoncé couple at the party)
This year's party is as lively as ever, with the front row full of top black stars.
Knowles auctioned some paintings and sculptures, and then took out the haute couture earrings made by famous designers.
The earrings were once Beyoncé's jewelry, but later they were given to Knowles. With this identity alone, it is already very valuable.
people rush to bid for the price of earrings to $80,000, which was the highest price of artworks in the audience at that time.
"Is there anyone else? $80,000 once! $80,000 twice-"
Just as the auctioneer shouted, a girl in blue raised her bidding sign to bid.
The audience burst into surprise because the girl was no one else, she was Beyoncé's 10-year-old daughter, Blue Ivy Carter.
"Oh my god, she's so rich!!" comedian Quinta Brunson shouted in the live video.
pair of earrings sold for more than 80,000 US dollars, which is a sprinkling water for celebrities. But Xiao Blu is only 10 years old, and the contrast is too strong...
In fact, as early as 2018, when Xiao Blu was only 6 years old, My parents had already taken her to the "Wearable Art Party".
That night, Xiao Blu wore a dazzling metal wig and sat next to his father Jay-Z for auction.
When an oil painting depicting the black actor appeared on the stage, Little Bru's eyes lit up and he held up the sign to increase the price to $17,000.
The American actor Tyler Perry (Tyler Perry). He didn't look back and raised the price to 18,000 yuan. Xiao Blu refused to admit defeat and continued to raise the bid to 19,000 yuan. After Perry increased the price to $20,000, Little Bru wanted to increase the price, but was finally stopped by her father. The TV footage of
turned to her, and Perry then realized that he was competing with a little girl and was shocked.
"No matter what, I finally got that painting. I can't be defeated by a 6-year-old child!" He joked in the interview.
failed in the initial battle, but Xiao Blu did not give up, and she bid for several more works of art. Finally, a painting that deconstructs law and medicine was taken for $10,000.
After seeing the news about Little Blu, American netizens were very dissatisfied with the Beyoncé and his wife, believing that they were corrupting their children's view of money.
"Does there be no age limit for these auctions? Even if parents are present, they shouldn't let the child bid. If she wants that pair of earrings, why doesn't her mother leave it for her as a heirloom?"
"Okay, another child who will lose the concept of money when she grows up. They don't have to work hard, they just need to live on their parents' bank account.
I really hope she can have some talent and become a useful person to the world. But considering that she doesn't have to work for anything, I'm a little worried..."
"Okay, Xiao Bru's money that he would hold up once was higher than the average annual salary of New Yorkers, no wonder Americans are so cynical.
But the founder of Art Peritus, a New York art consulting company, said that there are already many children like in auctions, which is not surprising at all.
"Many of our customers are millionaires, even billionaires, and they let their children enter the art auction market early. I don't know how much money the children spend, but every time it basically starts in five or six figures. The lowest six figures."
"Customers find it interesting to see children cultivate their collection taste bit by bit.Every child has a unique vision of collection. Some particularly like weird abstract works, while others like traditional 18th-century decorations, such as furniture, jewelry, etc. "
Most of these children are teenagers, such as the American boy Jaiden Stipp. At the age of 16, he unexpectedly fell in love with the NFT digital art collection, which is now worth up to $1 million.
(Jadan Stippe)
and from China . At the age of 17, he bought 248 Supreme skateboards at Sotheby's Auction for $800,000.
(the skateboard bought by Guo)
) Charlie Rosen (Charlie Rosen has been following his father to go to exhibitions and auctions since he was 3 years old. At the age of 11, he raised his sign to buy the first artwork he liked, a silver dwarf sculpture, which cost $352,000. Next to
, his father didn't blink.
Some children are very low, astonishingly low.
New York girl Shammiel Fleischer-Amoros) was only 4 years old when he first raised his bid.
Her mother is an artist and often takes her to art fairs, galleries and art auctions. Because she was too young, Sanmir actually didn't understand what art is, and bought good-looking things with instinct.
So, her room was filled with miniature tree sculptures and animal paintings of playing cards, and she bought a lot at a time. She was the favorite customer of the lower-level artists.
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Sometimes I think art is expensive, so Sanmill will bargain.
html When she was 29 years old, Sanmill attended the Scope Art Fair and took a fancy to cheese sculptures made by Japanese artists. The price was $3,200.
(cheese sculptures bought by Sanmill)
She spent three days with art dealer Don Carol (Don Carroll) bargained and asked him to sell her for $3,000. In the end, Carroll was so tired that he had to cut the price.
"I really felt embarrassed at first. "Carol told the media, "Look, she is just a little girl, and I still have to bargain with her. She came over and said to me the last day, ‘I’m really scared, but Dad told me to negotiate’. I told her that she has done a great job. "
Another little girl, Dakota King, also started buying artworks since she was 4 years old.
(Dakota King)
Dakota comes from an art collection family. Her grandfather focused on collecting classical art, and her parents collected minimalist art.
From the age of 9, Dakota bought 40 high-end artworks based on her own aesthetics. The art theme is related to animals, or the main color is "happy color" (referring to pink and yellow).
Her favorite collection is pop art leader Andy Warhol (Andy The panda picture created by Warhol) is one of the "Endangered Animals" series in 1983.
The reason for choosing it is simple.
" Panda is cute, fat and cute. It will protect me by night. ” Dakota said.
It is difficult to talk about the art taste of children who are aged and teenagers. Isn’t parents burning money for auctions?
art institutions have two explanations, The first type, and people are rich...
The second type, the rich people let children understand art investment through auctions. The paintings children buy are not always hanging In the bedroom, if you don’t like it, or when the market is good, they will sell the paintings. When the
is bought and sold, the children make a lot of money, so why not?
(Jin Xiaomei also collects artworks)
Moreover, parents can directly put the artworks they bought in their children’s trust.
Compared with buying artworks themselves and leaving them after death, this can save 45% federal inheritance tax.Ray Waterhouse, owner of Fine Art Brokers, an art consulting firm
arts, said he believes the rich educate their children through auctions.
"Now the auction will check the qualifications of bidders and whether they are capable of paying. If you register for auction status, no one asks your age, only your bank information."
"I have a client in Miami . His son spent thousands of dollars on trendy sports shoes when he was 12 years old. Every time my customer watches an auction, he will bring his son with him. You see, this is the younger generation of rich people teaching them."
But an anonymous art collector disagrees. He has been following his father to the auction hall since he was a teenager, thinking that it was just a simple parent-child trip.
"He never introduced me to art, saying, 'This can be yours, buy it'. All he said, 'Oh, this is my friend's exhibition, oh, that's the gallery I like. Let's go and see it!' He would also take me to the museum. There is no deep commercial meaning behind this."
Some art practitioners are not very happy that children enter the venue.
Painting vendor Sara Teccchia said she would never sell the painting to minors because they couldn't understand it.
"Art works are the soul projection of the artist because they are bought by people who can understand it. I don't like 13-year-old children to buy it like video games."
In fact, it's not just the children who don't understand it.
Many adult bidders don’t know much about art, but buy it out of investment, show off or trend.
For them, this is just a game, it just costs a lot...
