Market Brief: Demand for Grace Hartigan's Pioneering Ab-Ex Oeuvre Extends to Works on Paper
August 2, 2021 - Shannon Lee for Artsy News
Last Wednesday, a mixed-media collage by the late Abstract Expressionist artist Grace Hartigan sold for $75,000 at a Christie’s online auction, achieving five times its high estimate and breaking the auction record for works on paper by the artist. Hartigan, who was lauded as “the most celebrated of the young American women painters” by Life magazine in 1958, has seen a steady surge in demand for her trailblazing work in recent years. This is partly due to a growing wave of market interest in female Abstract Expressionists from collectors looking to correct their omission from art history.
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Featured Work: Sundancer, 1988
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