Edgar Martins

Portuguese | 1977

Edgar Martins is a Portuguese Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1977. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Saatchi Gallery have featured Edgar Martins's work in the past.Edgar Martins's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 625 USD to 9,945 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 9,945 USD for UNTITLED (SANTA MARIA - 160M EXP.), sold at Veritas Art Auctioneers in 2019. Edgar Martins has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Aesthetica in May 2024.

At Auction

Notable Lots

UNTITLED - SKAFTAFELL NATIONAL PARK, ICELAND - Edgar Martins

UNTITLED - SKAFTAFELL NATIONAL PARK, ICELAND ,2007

By Edgar Martins

Untitled - Skaftafell National Park, Iceland ,2007

By Edgar Martins

Untitled (Estlow, Bedfordhsire), 2005

By Edgar Martins

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Recent Auction Results

Sem título (Serie 鈥淭he Rehearsal of Space - Edgar Martins

Sem título (Serie 鈥淭he Rehearsal of Space ,2005

By Edgar Martins

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Untitled (from The Accidental Theorist series - Edgar Martins

Untitled (from The Accidental Theorist series ,2005

By Edgar Martins

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Photogram of a suicide note written by a female, in Lisbon, 1933 (from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes) - Edgar Martins

Photogram of a suicide note written by a female, in Lisbon, 1933 (from the series Siloquies and Soliloquies on Death, Life and Other Interludes) ,2016

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Past Exhibitions

Edgar Martins: Anton鈥檚 Hand is made of Guilt. No Muscle of Bone. He has a Gung-ho Finger and a Grief-stricken Thumb.

Galeria Filomena Soares

Lisbon | Portugal

Sep 21,2024 - Nov 16,2024

Photographs

Purdy Hicks Gallery

London | UK

Sep 12,2024 - Oct 05,2024

Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition 2024

Somerset House

London | UK

Apr 19,2024 - May 06,2024

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Articles

Aesthetica 17/05/2024

Edgar Martins is an International Sony World Photography Awards Winner known for documentary work on conflict, war and testimony.

CNN 18/04/2024

A French photographer has scooped the most prestigious prize at this year鈥檚 Sony World Photography Awards for a documentary project about the sterilization of women in Greenland.

Aesthetica 11/03/2024

When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911, the robbery led to an unexpected influx of visitors who flocked there to see the empty space.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Martins鈥� photographs recall science-fiction and in an unavoidable field of nostalgia, characterise a suspended time; that of the modern... 鈥�
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Ffotogallery, Turner House Gallery

鈥� ..For Martins a photograph is like a dead letter office, no return to sender, no addressee found, because of its inherent quality to detach from its author, to circulate and continue to signify long after... 鈥�
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Galería Pilar Serra

鈥� ..Using the social context of incarceration as a starting point, Martins explores the philosophical concept of absence, and addresses a broader consideration of the status of the photograph when questions... 鈥�
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Galeria Filomena Soares

鈥� .. Martins has created a compelling series of images of neglected and abandoned houses, apartments, office buildings, golf courses and ski resorts... 鈥�
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The New Art Gallery Walsall