Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People
Their acquisitions, affinities and approbations move the needle on valuation and redefine how art is made, shown and sold.
Vanessa Fusco
Vanessa Fusco, global head of the department for Impressionist and Modern Art at Christie's, has become one of the auction world's sharpest operators, blending connoisseurship with global reach to shape how blue-chip lots are positioned, priced, and ultimately placed in private collections, as exemplified by her handling of Claude Monet's Peupliers au bord de l'Epte, crépuscule (1891) and Pablo Picasso's Femme assise près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse) (1932), which sold for $43 million and over $100 million, respectively.
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Picasso’s Portrait of Muse Marie-Thérèse Walter Is Expected to Sell for $55 Million
Walter's relationship with Picasso began when she was only 17 years old, complicating the nature of the portrait.
