The Canon · 06

The Market Makers

Artists serious collectors fight to own - but whose importance goes beyond price.

01Cecily BrownThe body dissolves into paint.02Christopher WoolLanguage after painting, painting after language.03Damien HirstDeath, display and the price of looking.04George CondoThe portrait after Picasso, cartoons and bad manners.05Jeff KoonsDesire polished to a mirror.06Maurizio CattelanThe joke that keeps getting worse.07Peter DoigLandscape after memory.08Richard PrinceWho owns an image?09Zeng FanzhiThe face as social armour.10Zhang XiaogangThe family photograph becomes a portrait of modern China.