Artist prodigy Kieron Williamson (Kieron Williamson)

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Seven-year-prodigy artist sold the painting for 14 minutes.

2009

Pictures, written seven years by the British artist watercolourist Williamson Kieron (Kieron Williamson), were sold at an exhibition in his home town of Holt for 14 minutes. Over 16 paintings sold the young talent has received about 30 thousand dollars.

It was the first exhibition of works by Williamson. In order to buy his paintings, many art lovers came from London. It is known that at the present time on the waiting list are registered 680 persons who wish to purchase paintings of artist's genius.

The boy was often compared to the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, who wrote his first painting at The Picador age of eight. Williamson himself does not identify himself to Picasso, saying he wanted to be like the French artist Claude Monet. According to the young artist, he writes every week for six paintings. In general, in his paintings depicts a boy marinas, rural and urban landscapes, as well as animals. Williamson said that the first portrait he plans to write a couple of years, when his grandmother will be 100 years old. She will be his first nudes.

Mother of the artist Michelle Williamson, said that until last year, the boy did not draw. The turning point occurred when the family went on holiday to Devon and Cornwall in England last year and saw a small boat Williamson. This landscape is so impressed with him that he asked for a blank sheet of paper and started drawing.

Source: Vesti.ru


The eight-year prodigy earns hundreds of thousands of dollars.

August 2010

Eight Kieron Williamson called Mini Monet and is considered one of the most popular contemporary artists in Britain. The boy, who celebrated his birthday last week, managed a half hour to earn 150 thousand pounds (about 235,000 U.S. dollars) by selling 33 of his paintings.

The cost of work ranged from 2855 to 12.5 thousand dollars. The auction was held in his hometown of Kieron Holt (Norfolk).

Purchases were made by telephone from Tokyo, Japan and Germany, and some collectors specifically for participation in the auction have come here from Arizona, New York and South Africa. They occupied two days, the gallery, which held an art sale to avoid being miss the start of the auction.

Kieron Williamson began painting in May 2008 - at the age of five years. Do creative work inspired by the boy's father, who from the tendon injury was forced to quit my job and stay home builder, and therefore actively involved with his son. "With a brush and paints, he feels like a fish in water, as if nature had given him this incredible ability to tolerate what they saw on paper or canvas - says 44-year-old Keith Williamson. - It's all the more surprising because my wife and I do not even know which side to take up a pencil. Where did Kieron that talent is not clear. "

Most of the paintings prodigy - a landscape of North Norfolk. Last summer, Williamson decided to put work first son for sale - and got 22 thousand dollars for 19 watercolors. Just this fall, held the second auction, which lasted not even a quarter of an hour: 14 minutes over two dozen paintings were sold for Kieron 26.6 thousand dollars.

Source: Meyl.ru


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