If you’re keeping track at home, 5-7 years seems to be the auction house’s recommended amount of time to wait before selling the artworks the very prominent and generous artist whose studio you worked in gave to you—and which, let’s be real, you might have actually made in the first place.
Besides their adorably giftable scale, though, what strikes me about these two Wade Guyton paintings is that they both have nail holes in the top and bottom edges, as if they were nailed to the wall at some point before they were stretched. And now I want to see a show of unstretched Guytons nailed to the wall, curling just a little bit, and flapping in the breeze, as they are wont to do.
30 Sept 2025: Lot 353, Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2018, est. $50-70,000
Lot 355, Wade Guyton, Untitled, 2020, est. $200-300,000 [update: sold for $82,550 and $279,400, respectively][christies]
Previously, related: Wade Guyton and Anxiety in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction