Brian O’Doherty Estate Appraisal 

Brian O’Doherty (1928-2022)

It was a privilege, pleasure, and honor; to have completed an appraisal of artworks in the estate of the late Brian O’Doherty, whose long career included being an art critic and presenter for NBC and PBS. He was an editor at Art in America magazine, and the author of numerous essays, and several novels.Long before before art fairs and the Internet, his influential book Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the Gallery Space described how late 20th-century art was defined as much by the sterile environments in which it was exhibited, as by the art itself.  O’Doherty was a prolific visual artist who excelled in a variety of practices; from drawing and painting, to installation and performance. He invented a number of alter-egos— the most famous of which was Patrick Ireland; a persona adopted in protest to the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry on January 30, 1972.  After peace finally came to Northern Ireland in 2008, O’Doherty held a wake and burial of Patrick Ireland in the  formal garden of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The importance of this significant artist’s life has yet to be reckoned, but it is sure to be lasting.

O’Doherty is represented by Simone Subal Gallery in New York, Galerie Thomas Hoffmann in Friedberg, Germany, and Galerie Thomas Fischer in Berlin.