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Zwirner’s Bauhaus Money

Two shows offer a vision of accelerating art market trends through the works of Léon Spilliaert, and the chummy Bauhaus trio of Anni and Josef Albers and Paul Klee.

David Zwirner, Léon Spilliaert
One self-portrait in the show depicts Léon Spilliaert seen through a mirror with silver, electrified hair. You’ll recognize it, even if you’ve never seen it before, because David Lynch used the image as inspiration for the poster for Eraserhead. Photo: Courtesy of Agnews, Brussels and David Zwirner
Marion Maneker
March 18, 2025

Art market trends build slowly, and then sometimes seem to come together all at once. That’s what appears to be happening with the Belgian symbolist painter Léon Spilliaert, who in October had a work on paper sell at auction for $1.3 million—more than twice his previous high price of $559,000, set just the year before. Now, Spilliaert has a show of his haunting early 20th century works up at David Zwirner gallery, organized in collaboration with Agnews, Brussels.