The fifth edition of Independent 20th Century, an art fair within an auction house inside a Brutalist landmark, opened today. The Breuer Building in Manhattan, once home to the Whitney Museum, now offers a bounty of 'undiscovered' treasures, particularly from late women artists like Manina, an Austrian-Italian Surrealist who painted mythic visions of femininity.

Manina's paintings range between $40,000 and $160,000, and her story is just one of many at the fair that aim to 'reframe the canon' of the past century's avant-garde.

Art collectors, meanwhile, might find this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to add to their collections, with the likes of Pop darling Rosalyn Drexler's sculptures, rendered with charming abandon in plaster, wood, and found objects, on display. These works, shown at the Guggenheim in 1965, are much less known than her paintings.

But as the Breuer Building, with its Brutalist facade and imposing structure, seems to sigh with the weight of its history, it's a reminder that this art fair is a mise en abyme, a self-referential work within a work, that perfectly encapsulates the current state of the art world.