ADRA aims to discover as many as possible, offer immediate help and try to get them back into the system in the long run, Mitrovic said. Routinely afflicted by chronic diseases, mental health problems or substance abuse, homeless people in Belgrade in most cases have no documents and live under the state radar. “(Homeless people) are now even more exposed,” he said. Igor Mitrovic, executive manager of the ADRA group that is behind the project, estimates that there are 7,000 homeless people in Belgrade alone. But it has grown in importance since the start of the coronavirus pandemic that has pushed already vulnerable communities further to the margins. The project of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency has developed gradually over the past four years. Three times a week, a humanitarian organization working in Serbia opens up its mobile bus center for the homeless, offering basic services and help to some of the thousands living and sleeping rough in the Balkan country’s capital city. This will be a rare chance for them to have a shower, wash their clothes or get a medical checkup. However, that six-figure record stands to be broken this month when a collaged work from Roberts’s “Nessun Dorma” series, I Do Solemnly Swear (2018), goes up for auction on November 12th in New York at a Christie’s post-war and contemporary art day sale with a $100,000 to $150,000 estimate.BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Standing close together on a sunny autumn day, a group of people wait patiently by a blue bus parked beneath a bridge in Belgrade.
Since then, two more works by Roberts have surfaced at auction, but have only achieved prices in the low five-figure range. Her current auction record was set this past June by Serenade (2017), a fractured mixed-media work of a young girl wearing a tulle headdress, which sold for $119,700-nearly double its low estimate-at a Phillips sale in New York. The artist’s portraits are also beginning to gain a foothold on the secondary market Roberts’s work has regularly outperformed estimates since making its debut at auction in July 2020. At Frieze London last month, Stephen Friedman Gallery sold out its solo booth of works by Roberts (all in the range of $125,000 to $150,000) by the end of the fair’s first preview day. Roberts, known for her distinctive mixed-media collage portraits of Black children, is gaining attention on both the primary and secondary markets.
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