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(Photo courtesy Gary Nader Art Centre)
Gary Nader Art Centre recently celebrated a historic milestone with the sale of The Dream (The Bed) by Frida Kahlo for $54.7 million at Sotheby’s New York, making it the most expensive work ever auctioned by a female artist and the highest price achieved by a Latin American artist.
For Gary Nader — collector, curator, and advocate of Latin American art for over four decades — this moment confirms a truth he has maintained since the 1980s.
“This is not only the triumph of an artist; it is the triumph of a region and of an aesthetic.
Today art wins, women win, and Latin America wins,” Nader said.
This milestone coincides with the recent opening at the MoMA in New York of the exhibition “Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” the first comprehensive retrospective of the artist in the United States. Lam, a key figure of global modernism, has been promoted, studied, and collected by Nader throughout his career.
This year also marks a historic milestone for Fernando Botero, with his first exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan, titled “The Triumph of Form,” at the iconic Heydar Aliyev Center, designed by Zaha Hadid. Organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Fernando Botero Foundation, and curated by Lina Botero, the exhibition features 112 works spanning the artist’s creative universe.
“Latin American art now occupies the place it has always deserved,” Nader added. Kahlo’s record-breaking sale, Lam’s U.S. retrospective, and Botero’s global expansion reflect a profound shift: the definitive recognition of Latin America as a protagonist in modern and contemporary art, and a significant victory for women artists, historically marginalized in the Western canon.
Nader, founder of Gary Nader Art Centre, Nader Museum, and Nader Sculpture Park, has dedicated his life to closing the gap between the valuation, acceptance, and inclusion of Latin American art and that of European or American art.
His work includes hundreds of exhibitions, specialized publications, and the consolidation of Miami as the cultural capital of Latin American art.
Gary Nader Art Centre celebrates this moment as a monumental step toward equality, visibility, and cultural justice for Latin America and its women creators.
“Latin American art has always possessed the quality, historical strength, and conceptual depth to occupy the place it is finally claiming today,” Nader concluded.
Gary Nader Art Centre is located at 62 NE 27 St., Miami, FL 33137. Phone 305-576-0256; email art@garynader.com, or visit www.garynader.com.
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