A pair of overlooked artists became friends in the 1970s. Now a portrait of one by the other could fetch $5 million.
Barkley Hendricks’s painting of fellow artist Stanley Whitney is set to be auctioned by Christie’s in MayArt history doesn’t know much about the unlikely friendship between Stanley Whitney and Barkley L. Hendricks.
The artists were born a year apart in 1940s Philadelphia and met as art students at Yale University in the 1970s. They were both overlooked by the art market for decades but are now enjoying a revival—first Mr. Hendricks for his stylish portraits of Black people that have sold at auction for as much as $4 million apiece, and more recently Mr.
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