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Portrait of the Artist's Market

By Annette Grant

Published: February 9, 2008

Photo by Jelle Wagener

At 80, Wolf Kahn looks back fondly on a life in art. “I’ve made a living as an artist since I was 25,” he says. “I have never done anything careerist in my life.”

Photo by Jelle Wagener

Kahn’s studio is filled with his painted canvases, a testament to his productivity.

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Kahn graciously acknowledges the masterly part, but he also calls himself an avant-garde painter. “What we admire today is energy and clarity and simplicity, and I’m hoping that’s what my art is about,” he says. “People are realizing what an original Avery was, and one day maybe they will realize that about me.”

"Portrait of the Artist's Market" originally appeared in the February 2008 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's February 2008 Table of Contents.