Although a work by Andreas Gursky, a German photographer, has since displaced Ms Sherman's picture from the top spot, she is still one of the few women artists
whose auction prices are in the same ballpark as her male peers.
Piene,
whose auction prices are creeping up to $ 1 million, was a founder of the radical ZERO group in 1957.
Not exact matches
«No one is folding tent because
auction prices have declined,» said Casey Kaplan,
whose gallery is opening the artist's solo exhibition in New York next month.
The
price set a new
auction record for the Los Angeles - based artist,
whose previous high mark was achieved at Christie's New York with «See Alice Jump.»
What does and doesn't matter It still matters which galleries participate (that Pace / MacGill gave gravitas to the maturity of photography as an art form in Miami by its first participation in ABMB was much remarked on),
whose collections living artists are in, which gallery represents them, whether they have had a recent museum retrospective or one is imminent, and their latest
price at
auction.
While dealers sometimes complain about escalating
auction prices for young artists disrupting their markets, Christie's contemporary specialist Saara Pritchard points out that
auctions provide the only access to many talents
whose galleries maintain a tight grip on waiting lists.
Phillips has carved out a niche for itself as the first
auction house stop for contemporary artists
whose careers are on the rise and its «New Now» sale is where the asking
price for many is first set.
Exceptions are Grace Hartigan, who saw her strongest
auction price in 2010 — $ 74,500 for the striking 1956 work Woman with Red Flower; and Jay DeFeo,
whose beautiful, elusive, acrylic and mixed - media work on masonite Temple (for W.B.) from 1980, fetched a record $ 233,000 in 2013.
This curatorial validation was matched by market indicators such as the first
auction prices surpassing $ 1 million for El Anatsui, the Ghanian sculptor
whose retrospective drew crowds to the Brooklyn Museum this spring.
In the contemporary Chinese art market, overwhelming attention has been paid to oil painters and conceptual artists
whose works have fetched astronomical
prices in
auctions worldwide.
But over the past few years there have been signs of renewed demand for work by that group of «1980s artists», including Schnabel,
whose top three
auction prices have been set since 2013.
In addition to the Hume studio dinner and works by Laure Prouvost and Elizabeth
Price, also confirmed for inclusion in the
auction are works by Caroline Achaintre, David Austen, Charles Avery, Alice Channer, Angela de la Cruz, Matthew Darbyshire, Haris Epaminoda, Roger Hiorns, Tania Kovats, Michael Landy, Haroon Mirza, Toby Paterson, Mick Peter, Olivia Plender, Fiona Rae, Michal Rovner, Samara Scott, Daniel Silver, Caragh Thuring, Rose Wylie (
whose painting of Hollywood actress Penelope Cruz is pictured here), Catherine Yass and many more.
The piece,
whose price of 1.7 million pounds was within the estimated range, is one of five Stingels on the
auction block this week in London.
One of the top - selling painters of today,
whose works reach multi-million dollar
prices at
auctions around the world, German painter Gerhard Richter reveals some of his creativity secrets in the 2011 documentary entitled Painting.
The project, announced on Thursday in Manchester, brings together the 83 - year - old German Richter,
whose work has repeatedly set record
auction prices for a living artist, with the 79 - year - old Estonian Pärt, the world's most performed living composer.
David Zwirner, one of the world's leading galleries, recently started working with Kerry James Marshall of Chicago
whose prices hit a record $ 5 million at
auction in November, following an acclaimed retrospective that visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
With the exception of Georgia O'Keeffe and Edward Hopper, both of whom have international followings and
whose works have sold at
auction for in excess of $ 40m, there remains a disparity in
price — and therefore a misperception of the historical value and importance of a number of artists.
Mr. Gilliam, who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1972 and
whose draped canvases have had a strong influence on younger painters trying to rethink the medium, has only recently broken $ 300,000 at
auction, though works by Mr. Gilliam on view recently at the Frieze Masters art fair in London were
priced at up to $ 500,000.