Christie’s notched new public sale information for Firelei Báez, Joan Brown, and Olga de Amaral throughout its Twenty first-century night sale on Wednesday, underscoring robust demand for traditionally under-recognized girls artists.
Báez’s monumental 2021 portray Untitled (Colonization in America, Visible Historical past Wall Map, Ready by Civic Schooling Service) bought for $1,111,250, setting a brand new report for the Dominican-born artist whose work interrogates colonial histories by layers of archival maps, Caribbean symbolism, and swirly swaths of paint—on this case, densely rendered feathers. (All costs are reported together with purchaser’s premiums.)
Brown’s After the Alcatraz Swim #2 achieved $596,900, a benchmark for the Bay Space Figurative artist whose psychologically charged self-portrait attracts from a near-fatal 1975 swim in San Francisco Bay.
The best worth of those three got here for Amaral’s gold-laced fiber work Pueblo H (2011), which soared to $3,125,000—greater than double her earlier public sale report. Provided from Elaine Wynn’s assortment, the end result displays the Colombian artist’s surging worldwide visibility, together with her participation within the 2024 Venice Biennale and her retrospective, which debuted on the Fondation Cartier in Paris in 2024 earlier than touring to the Institute of Up to date Artwork, Miami earlier this yr. A pioneer of textile-based abstraction, Amaral’s architectonic woven compositions have more and more been reevaluated as central contributions to postwar artwork.
Christie’s additionally set two different information for sculpture throughout the sale: a brand new excessive for a neon/sculptural work by Glenn Ligon, which realized $3,125,000, in addition to a report for a three-dimensional work by Richard Prince, whose Untitled (Cowboy) sculpture, from 2011, introduced in $3.4 million. Collectively, the outcomes marked a big evening inside an already robust season for artists traditionally underrepresented on the prime finish of the public sale market.
