Sothebys Auction House: Female Power Players Achieve Record Breaking Prices in 2014

In 2014, women artists played a prominent role in the Sothebys
Auction House Art Market. There was a surge in appreciation of
works done by female artists achieving prices that were record
breaking.

Jimson Weed of 1932, an iconic flower painting done by Georgia
OKeeffe, more than tripled the former world auction record for any
female artist. The piece drew in an outstanding $44.4M in New York
this past November. This landed OKeeffe 8th overall in the top 10
highest sold pieces at the Sothebys Auction House for all of
2014.

The top ten highest sold pieces at the Sothebys Auction
House in 2014 included: Alberto Giacometti, Chariot sold
for $100,965,000 Amedeo Modigliani, Tete sold for an artists record
of $70,725,000 Vincent Van Gogh, Still life, Vase with Daisies and
Poppies sold or $61,765,000 Claude Monet, Nympheas sold for
$54,071,001 JWM Turner, Rome, from Mount Aventine sold for
$47,430,454 Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Portrait of George
Dyer sold for $45,400,274 Mark Rothko, No. 21 (Red, Brown, Black
and Orange) sold for $44,965,000 Georgia OKeeffe, Jimson
Weed sold for $44,405,000 Mark Rothko Untitled sold for
$39,925,000 Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light
Orange) sold for $36,565,000

Other notable female artist figures in 2014 include Kay Sage,
Vija Celmins, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Julia Margaret Cameron.
American artist Kay Sage, emerged from the shadow of her husbands
reputation with her suggestive painting Le Passage of 1956. The
piece immensely exceeded predicted sales when it sold for
$7.1M.

The time and effort put into pieces by Vija Celmins is a
scarcity seen by collectors. Her labor-intensive and meticulously
detailed work is hard to come by which leads to furious competition
when it appears at auction. Burning Plane from 1965 doubled the
high estimate of $1.2M selling for $3.4M.

The Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi set a new record for
herself taking in a remarkable sum of $1.2M exceeding predicted
sale prices by almost $100,000. Lastly, Julia Margaret Cameron
doubled her previous record auctioning No. 5 of a series of twelve
life-sized heads for $461,000.

Closing out the year with record prices, this outstanding growth
in appreciation for women artists demonstrates that the best is yet
to come for the Sothebys Auction House.

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