PARIS, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sotheby's is
proposing to give greater market visibility to
female artists by organising an online session entitled
(Women) artists, from 20 to 27 May
2021. But some see this initiative as a form of
discrimination. The initiative, which claims to celebrate
"contributions by women to art history across 400 years",
risks further consolidating the gender gap difference, or even
worse, reducing women's place in the Art History to a simple
"contribution".
thierry Ehrmann, President and Founder of Artmarket.com and its
Artprice department says "The share of art auction turnover
generated by female artists has doubled in 20 years, from 4% to 8%
of the global turnover. But it is still far too low compared
to the number of major female artists: Artemisia Gentileschi,
Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman… A sales
session dedicated to the female sex deserves, at the very least, a
prestige evening sale!"
Artprice takes this opportunity to focus on four major artists
who also happen to be women.
Hilma Af Klint (1862-1944).
The pioneer of abstract art
While no "abstract" work by Hilma Af
Klint has ever been sold at auction (for the good reason
that they all belong to her foundation), this artist foreshadowed
the fundamental role of women in one of the key movements of the
20th century, many of whom went on to generate remarkable auction
results:
Artist - Personal Record
Joan Mitchell: $16.6 million
Lee Krasner: $11.6 million
Helen Frankentalher: $7.9 million
Cecily Brown: $6.8 million
Yayoi Kusama (1929-).
The market's most successful female artist
Without reaching the heights of Georgia
O'Keeffe ($ 44.4 million) or
Louise Bourgeois ($32 million), the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is the most successful female
artist on the art market thanks to an abundant production that
changes hands all over the world. With 617 lots sold at auction in
2020, generating a total of $67
million, Kusama ranked 20th in Artprice's 2020 general
ranking of artists by annual turnover (all creative periods
combined) ahead of Tamara de
Lempicka (who came 33rd).
The very fact that the most successful female artist in history
is a living artist presages a fundamental change that is
indeed being confirmed in more recent generations.
Jenny Saville
(1970-). The most sought after
With an average of approximately one show every two years (at
the Gagosian gallery) and one painting auctioned per year,
Jenny Saville's market maintains a
form of rarity that perfectly suits her kind of art. Both classical
and brutal at the same time, her painting has been compared to that
of Rubens or Lucien Freud, but the
English artist has created one of the most original œuvres on the
contemporary scene. In the past, Jenny
Saville was associated with the Young British Artists
movement along with Tracey Emin,
Sarah Lucas and Rachel
Whiteread.
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
(1983-). The most promising
Her paintings caused a sensation in auctions held in 2017 and
2018, but then subsequently disappeared from the secondary market.
However, the young Nigerian-born artist has never been so popular
since then. Named in TIME magazine's 2019 "100 Next" list as one of
the most influential personalities on the planet, she has also
joined the prestigious David Zwirner
Gallery, who has joined forces with Victoria Miro to ensure that Crosby's success
isn't derailed by market over-enthusiasm.
Crosby is located at the center of a constellation of female
artists under 50 and of African origin who are revolutionizing the
portraiture genre, notably by using collage techniques.
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