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Kara Walker
American • b. 1969
Biography
Kara Walker sugarcoats nothing. Her masterpiece public art commission, A Subtlety, 2014, was a 35-foot high racial confrontation of artifact, mythology and American history in the form of a sphinx packed from 80-tonnes of Domino white sugar crystals. Walker's practice first caught audiences with her haunting paper cutout silhouettes retelling the injustices of slavery and the foundations of American capitalist culture.
Walker's immense talent matched by her cunning commentary has made her one of the most important contemporary artists today, having enjoyed major exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York in addition to permanent placements within the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute Chicago. Her auction market is strong for a mid-career artist, with works reaching more than $300,000.
Insights
At the age of 28, Walker became one of the youngest people to ever receive a MacArthur Genius award.
Chuck Close created a dotted portrait of Walker in ceramic tile for the 86th Street Subway station in New York City.
Recent Kara Walker headlines, Powered by Articker
13 June 2021 | VernissageTV
Kara Walker / Kunstmuseum Basel10 June 2021 | Hyperallergic
“This Is Apartheid”: Kara Walker, Nan Goldin, and 16,000+ Artists Voice Solidarity With Palestine9 June 2021 | kooness.com
Kara Walker's secret archive see the lights at Kunstmuseum Basel4 June 2021 | Financial Times
Kara Walker: ‘Living with somebody else’s pain is tricky’3 June 2021 | the Art Wolf
Kara Walker at Kunstmuseum Basel
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Kara Walker
Pocketwatch, scene No. 5 from The Emancipation Approximation
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
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Emancipation Approximation: Scenes 5; 9; 15; 18; and 26
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
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The Keys to the Coop
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $31,500
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A Means to An End... A Shadow Drama in Five Acts (L. P. p. 216, fig. 85)
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $52,920
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Snared
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $6,930
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Up Frum Slubbery
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £18,900
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The Emancipation Approximation (scene #18)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $30,240
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Banks's Army Leaving Simmsport, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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Deadbrook After the Battle of Ezra's Church, from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
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Testimony Suite
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $10,080
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The Bush; Skinny; and De-boning (three sculptures)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $12,500
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Freedom, A Fable
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $2,125
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Forging Freedoms
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Sold for $65,000
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Untitled
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Sold for £25,000
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Untitled
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Pocketwatch, scene No. 5, from The Emancipation Approximation
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £11,250
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Pastoral, from Wall Works
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
Sold for £17,500
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Lost Mountain at Sunrise, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $6,875
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Freedom: a Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
Sold for $2,250
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The Marvelous Sugar Baby Production Model in Bronze
Estimate On Request
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Portrait of a Seduction 1778
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000
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Freedom, A Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
Sold for $3,750
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Kara Walker
Freedom: a Fable
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Untitled (Canisters)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $12,500
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