Babacar Sow

The market for this artist runs through a single exclusive gallery channel in Paris, and no result at any auction house other than LLB Auction was found in researching this page. An estimate therefore rests on this house's own results and on the gallery's retail prices rather than on an independent secondary market. Fuente

The published editions are extremely small. La Patience au soleil of 2024 is a colour screenprint on Canson paper with diamond dust, sixty by sixty centimetres, in an edition of five. Confirm the fraction written in the margin before treating a sheet as one of a larger run. Fuente

The screenprints reproduce collage surfaces and are finished with diamond dust, so in a photograph they can pass for the unique collages they are made from. Establish in the hand whether the surface is layered paper or a flat printed sheet, because the two price in completely different bands. Fuente

The gallery's editions for this artist retail well below the level the unique paintings have reached at this house. Do not read a result for an oil on canvas as a guide to what an editioned screenprint is worth, or the reverse. Fuente

The artist is at an early stage and the body of published work is small and recent, dated from about 2019 onward. There is no catalogue of his output, so the gallery listing and the seller's own paperwork are the whole of the reference material. Fuente