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Everyone buys his works.. a Spanish child competes with top artists with exceptional talent

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Andres Valencia, aged 10, managed to occupy a place for his paintings in the most important international exhibitions, and even sold them for amounts of more than 150 thousand dollars, to take their place among the holdings of world celebrities and those interested in collecting pieces of art, and it seems that everyone is buying his works, according to what she said Many press reports.

Andres made history last December by being the youngest artist ever to exhibit at the famous (Art Miami) gallery, which displays the world's leading artists, as he sold his entire collection of 17 paintings in three days, at prices ranging from $5,000 to $20,000, according to As reported by the New York Post.

Buyers who now own an original copy of Andres' work include author Jordan Belfort, actresses Brooke Shields, Channing Tatum and Sofia Vergara.

And last June, Andres exhibited his work in New York with a solo exhibition, where all 35 works on display were sold and fetched between $50,000 and $125,000, according to a report published by the New York Times.

That same month, "Mrs. Cube," a colorful cubist depiction of an elegant woman, sold for $160,000 at auction in Hong Kong.

The New York Post quoted Andres as saying he was "very happy" with the sale of his paintings. "I'm not emotionally attached to any painting, because I know I can always make another one," Andres said.

The boy began selling watercolors for about $20 to family friends, a price he bought for a local art gallery manager, Bernie Chase, who said he once raised his bid for one work to $100, but Andres responded by asking for $5,000. , which was approved by the owner of the house.

Commenting on Andres' drawings, Chase told The Times: "I've been in the business of art for 20 years, working with guys like Peter Beard and Kenny Scharf.

Andres has the potential to be that big or bigger.”

Andres paints every day, he said. “I paint in little bits, I work on it for an hour or two, then I go do something else, I come back to it the next day, and I keep adding more.”

He adds that he was influenced by the style of Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georges Kondo, Salvador Dali and Amedeo Modigliani.

And when he's in the studio, he loves to listen to the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Freddie Mercury, he told the New York Post, but he's still a kid, as The Times also commented, "He plays with his friends after school."

In fact, he was 20 minutes late for his interview with the newspaper, because his mother took him to a toy store between interviews.

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