The contract also serves as a piece of conceptual art itself. The peak for her works was in 2016 when 23 artworks were sold in auctions, while in 2019, there were 12 sold. Featured image: Jenny Saville - Propped (detail), 1992. + '
' // Signup submission top: 'auto', Over the past decade, just 29,247 works by female artists were acquired by 26 top museums in the United States, out of 260,470 total works. Top 10 most expensive female artists at auction. ‘Women Artists to Watch’ will pay homage to Alex Strada’s ‘Artist Contract’, which is an artwork sales agreement that requires any collector to reinvest all accrued value in new artwork by an emerging female-identifying artist. Featured image: Julie Mehretu - Black Ground (Deep Light), 2006. bottom: 0 contentType: 'application/json; charset=UTF-8', With a total of 12 paintings sold, she has a total turnover of $33,875,157, with 3 works selling for between $100k and $500k and 3 selling for over $1m. Most buyers of Modern British art are men – it is still an incredibly male-dominated market. link.type = 'text/css'; For more information about these artists, including their top-selling lots, comparable sales, or overall market trends, we invite you to visit the artnet Price Database or artnet Analytics at artnet.com. Top 5 Most Expensive Women Artists at Auction A jimson weed, as featured in Georgia O’Keefe’s top-selling “Jimson Weed/Flower No. } else { }); var o = {}; function getCookie(cname, prefix) { } Fascinated by the human body, she describes flesh as "the most beautiful thing to paint.". } $.ajax({ Taking a long view—over the past ten years—and looking at artists dead or living (as opposed to our last post on living women artists), Georgia O'Keeffe is still the head of this group. }, + '
' } if (prefix == undefined) { See our Privacy Policy for more information about cookies. } Within her total turnover of $81,689,643 in auction, the artist sold the majority of her works in the price range between $10 and $50k (a total of 139), with 23 going for over $1m (of which one went for over $5m). share. She sold the biggest number of works in 2018 - 23, while in 2019, she sold 9. O’Keeffe Painting Sells for $44 Million at Sotheby’s, Sets Record for Work by Female Artist, Joan Mitchell Leads the Pack at Bonhams Sale. addCss('https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css'); + '<\/div>' She sold the biggest amount of works in 2018 and 2019, 20 works each. Featured image: Tamara de Lempicka - La Tunique Rose, 1927. Once Again… Where Are All the Women Artists? } + '<\/div>' var d = new Date(); //show automatically after delay + '' }, Please try again later.' We examined sales results from auction houses worldwide, looking back as far as 1985. return; found = false; o[this.name] = this.value || ''; There are still many significant female artists who are underperforming at auction despite great critical acclaim, which presents an opportunity for savvy collectors. link.rel = 'stylesheet'; } else { $10m-$15m). var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); The Female Triumphant, a cornerstone event highlighting women artists of the premodern era has led Masters Week in New York. script.crossorigin = "anonymous"; There also needs to be a larger representation of female artists in galleries and art fairs as this has an impact on the long-term prospects of women’s markets: if they sell fewer works on the primary market, then their secondary markets will necessarily be inhibited. The top selling female artist in the global Art Market – all periods of creation combined – is none other than an 89-year-old Japanese woman who has spent 40 years living in a psychiatric hospital. } var settings = cookieSettings[cookieName]; var script = document.createElement('script'); Between 2012 and 2018, prices for works by female artists rose by an average 72.9 percent, while art by male artists … //after successful signup, hide the signup bar after 5 seconds customSerializer: function(){ document.cookie = prefix + cname + "=" + cvalue + ";" + expires + ";path=/"; var head = document.head if ($modal.hasClass('slideInDown')) return; // FUNCTIONS if (window.jQuery) { + '' Female artists outperform males when their work returns to auction, report finds A data study by Sotheby's Mei Moses reveals a 73% increase for work by … } w = pagetype + 20 * Math.round(w / 20), h = pagetype + 20 * Math.round(h / 20), googletag.cmd.push(function() { if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) { .fail(function(jqXHR, textStatus){ 1”. pagetypeforce = pagetypeurl.substr(pagetypeurl.length - 3); // Show email validation error and hide other errors We continue our series of the most expensive artists at auction with women artists. Auction turnover: $10,317,602 American-born painter Mary Cassatt spent most of her life in France, where she was amongst the only female artists to exhibit with the Impressionists. } setTimeout(function() { + '<\/div>' 1 (1932) sold at Sotheby's last week for $44.4 million, tripling its high estimate of $15 million, it became the most expensive painting by a female artist sold at auction. $modal.addClass( $modal.hasClass('slideInUp') ? //if there are cookies indicating that we shouldn't show the signup bar, then the modal won't have been added to the page Within a total turnover of $52,959,158 in auction, Brown sold the majority of her works in the price range between $100k and $500k (a total of 21), while 17 went for over $1m (of which one work went for over $5m). setCookie(cookieName, value, expirationMinutes); Featured image: Louise Bourgeois - Spider, 1997. 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