🔥 Buy, Flip, Burn + Andy Warhol

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HEY Y’ALL!

Thanks for all the great feedback on the Alissa McKendrick piece I shared last Wednesday and happy Valentine's day!

🔥 ICYMI – Catchs from the Last Week:

1. Anthony Cudahy, Glimmering on the land, 2021 - priced at £35,000

2. Javier Calleja, Drop By Drop, 2021 - priced at £150,000

3. Madeleine Bialke, Hook & Eye, 2023 – priced at £19,000

Today we have an Andy Warhol that won’t stay cheap for long—1969, £55K, and stamped. Plus, collectors cool off, galleries lock the doors on speculators, and London’s resale game gets messy.

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-Today’s Catch-

Andy Warhol

💭 My 2 Cents: A 1969 Warhol for £55,000? That’s basically a steal in Warhol terms. OK, it’s not a Marilyn or a car crash, but Dominique de Menil wasn’t just anyone—she bankrolled half the modern art world. This is Warhol in his sweet spot: post-fame, pre-80s money grab, and still playing with power circles. It’s small, but that just makes it easier to stash before prices creep up.

🔑 Key Numbers: The Warhol market has pulled in $1.54B in sales since 2018, still moving 2880 works a year with a 84% sell-through rate. The median sale is $43,750, meaning you’re getting in at the right level. Meanwhile, the 1960s outperform every other Warhol decade—so you’re sitting on the right side of history.

🧠 Why It’s a Smart Pick: This isn’t for the flexers—this is for the players. It’s the kind of piece that sneaky collectors grab before the broader market catches on. Warhol’s market swings, but it never crashes. A tiny one-of-one Warhol from his prime era? If you don’t take it, someone else will—probably for more in a couple of years.

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🔥 Words I Like: sharks, pump-and-dump, crashproof

Buy, Flip, Burn

London, NewChild Gallery. Upstairs, the art. Downstairs, the business. 

On the first floor, Madeleine Bialke’s paintings glowed like neon in a dark forest—lush, eerie, and strangely calm. You could lose yourself in the colors.

But one floor down, at the Artscapy x ArtTactic x NewChild panel, the mood was more tense. The topic? Emerging artists and the minefield of speculation. 

A few collectors whispered about the works upstairs—who’s buying, who’s selling, and how soon before the next auction cycle. Because that’s the game now, right? 

If an artist gets hot, their works hit the resale market before the paint even dries. Flippers love this. Artists and galleries? Not so much. 

The numbers don’t lie: 2024 was brutal—market down 27%. But the volume of transactions barely moved.

Translation? The high rollers sat out, but mid-tier and emerging artists kept things alive. The so-called ‘market crash’ isn’t stopping people from buying—it’s just changing who buys and why.

ArtTactic’s Lindsay Dewar laid it out: Collectors are still hunting, but with more caution. The boom-and-bust cycle for young artists has them nervous.

Gallerists, like NewChild’s Sarah Vanwelden, are fighting back with resale clauses and tighter vetting—trying to keep flippers out and long-term collectors in.

And what about Artscapy’s Alessandro? He called it: Collectors are learning patience. The quick-cash crowd is cooling off, realizing they need to hold onto works longer than a season to see real gains.

Bottom line? If you’re serious, build relationships. The era of snapping up hot names just to flip them is fading. Collectors who actually understand what they’re buying will win in the long run.

For the curious bunch I summarized all the key takeaways from the panel into a doc—so read it before your next overpriced cappuccino. Because by next week, this market will have already shifted again.

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