Justin de Verteuil
Discovery#77
Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
2/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
4/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
8/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
1/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
5/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Liquidity
- Low secondary market liquidity (no auction presence), but strong primary market liquidity through gallery. This is typical for early-career artists with gallery management
- Comparables
- Artists with similar trajectory: contemporary figurative painters emerging from German art academies with Caribbean connections; Peter Doig connection provides important market signal
- Collector Base
- Emerging international collector base; works distributed through Sies + Höke, ADZ Gallery network; likely European-focused with growing international interest
- Primary Market
- Status
- Gallery-controlled primary market
- Availability
- Limited - most recent works (2024-2025) sold out; current 2025 works available only through direct gallery inquiry
- Sales Velocity
- Very high - nearly all 2024-2025 works listed on Ocula and Artsy show 'Sold' status, indicating strong collector demand and effective gallery placement
- Price Indicators
- Note
- Specific pricing not disclosed publicly - typical gallery-represented emerging artist practice
- Large Works
- 260 x 300 cm (Minnesang, 2024)
- Small Works
- 30 x 40 cm works
- Medium Works
- 100-200 cm works
- Pricing Structure
- Contact Sies + Höke for current pricing - works consistently marked 'Sold' indicating strong demand
- Auction History
- Price Range
- No public auction results found
- Recent Activity
- No secondary market auction presence as of December 2025
- Total Lots Sold
- 0
- Market Trajectory
- Rapid upward trajectory since 2023 breakout. Moving from unknown to internationally recognized within 2-year period (2023-2025). Gallery representation with strong European gallery (Sies + Höke) suggests controlled market development
- Total Lots Offered
- 0
- Market Position
- Tier
- Discovery
Institutional Presence
- Exhibitions
Title Year Dates Venue Location Significance Type Sweet Odour 2023 March 9 - April 8, 2023 ADZ Gallery Lisbon, Portugal — Solo Nexus 2023 May 12 - June 17, 2023 Caprii by Sies + Höke Düsseldorf, Germany First solo presentation in Germany Solo Bernheim x ADZ Gallery: Group Show 2024 — Bernheim Zurich, Switzerland — Group Planet Caravan 2024 March 8 - May 31, 2024 López de la Serna CAC Madrid, Spain Debut presentation in Spain Solo Magpie on a Morning Gallows 2024 November 22, 2024 - January 11, 2025 Sies + Höke Düsseldorf, Germany — Solo Art Basel 2025 June 2025 Art Basel Basel, Switzerland Featured by Sies + Höke; named one of '8 emerging artists to seek out' by Art Basel Fair - Kabinett sector - Museum Collections
- Fair Participation
Year Fair Gallery 2023 Frieze No.9 Cork Street ADZ Gallery 2025 Art Basel Sies + Höke - Institutional Validation Notes
- Early-stage institutional presence. No confirmed museum acquisitions yet, but strong commercial gallery representation and Art Basel recognition indicate building institutional interest. Peter Doig mentorship connection significant for future institutional positioning
- Awards and Recognition
- Year
- 2019
- Award
- Meisterschüler
- Awarded by
- Siegfried Anzinger
- Institution
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Year
- 2025
- Recognition
- Featured as one of '8 emerging artists to seek out at Art Basel 2025' in official Art Basel editorial
Career & Biography
- Career
Year Event 2012 Began painting studies with Edward Bowen in Trinidad after dropping out of university in Canada at age 21 2014 Moved to Düsseldorf to study at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as guest student in Peter Doig's class 2019 Awarded Meisterschüler by Siegfried Anzinger 2023 Breakout year - First solo exhibition at ADZ Gallery Lisbon (Sweet Odour, March-April); First solo presentation in Germany at Caprii by Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (Nexus, May-June); International recognition accelerates 2024 Solo exhibition at López de la Serna CAC, Madrid (Planet Caravan, March-May); Second solo show at Sies + Höke (Magpie on a Morning Gallows, November 2024-January 2025) 2025 Featured at Art Basel in Basel (Kabinett sector) as one of '8 emerging artists to seek out'; Continued strong primary market sales through Sies + Höke - Identity
- Current Location
- Düsseldorf, Germany
- Artistic Context
- Key Influences
- Peter Doig (early mentor at Kunstakademie), Edward Bowen (Trinidad mentor), Giotto, Piero della Francesca, medieval/Renaissance artists, Ananda Coomaraswamy (art historian/philosopher), Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Artistic Profile
- Style
- Style
- Contemporary figurative painting with Gothic iconographic influences; characterized by tension between proximity and distance, drama and stillness
- Evolution
- From discovering painting at 21 in Trinidad, through academic formation in Düsseldorf, to professional emergence. Work has evolved from initial urban scene explorations to complex multi-figure compositions with allegorical dimensions. Post-pandemic period saw shift to group scenes. Increasing sophistication in color use and compositional ambiguity
- Influences
- Influences Trajectory
- Edward Bowen (Trinidad mentor) → Peter Doig (Kunstakademie) → Giotto, Piero della Francesca (medieval/Renaissance) → Bruegel (The Magpie on the Gallows reference) → Contemporary figurative painting traditions
- Visual Language
- Ranges from small (30 x 40 cm) to very large (260 x 300 cm). Comfortable working across multiple scales
- Themes and Subjects
- Interpersonal relationships and emotional intimacy
- Tension between proximity and distance, presence and absence
- Post-pandemic isolation and reconnection
- Family and personal environment
- Urban spaces and mundane settings transformed
- Private inner life versus social interaction
- Trinidad heritage and German present
- Religious iconography and secular life
- Group situations and isolated figures
- Self-portraits
- Family members and personal environment
- Urban scenes (Düsseldorf streets, Trinidad backyards)
- Allegorical compositions referencing saints and religious imagery
- Torero/bullfighter imagery
- Birds (magpies) as symbolic devices
- Interiors and architectural structures
- Movements and Periods
- Techniques and Mediums
- Figurative oil painting on canvas and paper Intuitive 'picture-finding' process rather than pre-conceived compositions. Multiple buried layers of paint with subsequent alterations and abandonments. Photographically recorded moments from travels and daily life serve as templates. Masterful command and balancing of color. Tension between drama and stillness, frozen movement quality. Ambiguous atmospheric spaces
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Monographs
- None published
- Major Reviews
Date Significance Publication Type March 2023 — Art Viewer Exhibition review/documentation July 2023 In-depth discussion of artistic practice, influences, working methods Revue Eclipse Artist interview — Visibility in major art publication Frieze Exhibition listing/documentation May 2025 Major institutional recognition and visibility Art Basel Feature article - Critical Themes
- Interpersonal relationships and emotional distance, tension between proximity and absence, Gothic iconographic influence, transformation of mundane into transcendent, post-pandemic isolation and reconnection, family and personal environment as subject matter, ambiguity and open narratives
- Catalogue Raisonne
- None - too early in career
- Publications and Media
- Documentary Coverage
- No known documentary films
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Fair Participation Through Galleries
- Note
- Sies + Höke regularly participates in: Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Art Basel Miami Beach, Frieze London, ART021
- Frieze London
- 2023 (ADZ Gallery, No.9 Cork Street presentation)
- Art Basel Basel
- 2025 (Sies + Höke, Kabinett sector)
- Representation
- Online Presence
- Works listed on Ocula, Artsy, Artnet through Sies + Höke; strong gallery website presentation
- Gallery Exhibitions
- 2 solo shows with Sies + Höke (2023, 2024-2025), 1 solo with ADZ Gallery (2023), 1 solo at López de la Serna CAC (2024)
- Secondary Galleries
Location Note Gallery Relationship Lisbon, Portugal Early supporter, helped establish European presence ADZ Gallery First solo exhibition 2023; continued presentation through Frieze No.9 Cork Street Madrid, Spain Private contemporary art center expanding geographic reach López de la Serna CAC Solo exhibition 2024 - Representation Quality
- Excellent - Sies + Höke is a respected gallery with strong track record of artist development and major fair presence. Gallery's roster includes established German artists (Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo exhibitions) alongside emerging talents
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