Paladino's Olympia - the best deal at the RA?
Imogen Tilden, arts editor
Well it's certainly not the £20,000 jelly baby.
Co-curator Stephen Farthing reckons the best bargain at this year's show are 30 woodcuts by the Italian artist Mimmo Paladino. The prints were made for the Athens Olympic games but not used. As Farthing says,
"we managed to acquire them through a dealer. Part of our idea [behind the summer show] is that this should be affordable art, and these are probably the best deal in the show! Collecting art has, after all, got to be about buying the best name at the lowest price you can."
They're £177 each, plus the RA's hefty 30% commission.
