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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
19 May 2022 | Artnet
‘It Honors Millions of Ancestors’: Watch Artist Kara Walker Build a Mobile Musical Monument to Enslaved People6 May 2022 | Artblog
Kickstarter update, robotics at 319, Kara Walker’s calliope, Cesar Viveros, Painted Bride “Off the Wall” and opportunity info session!4 February 2022 | University of California Press
Celebrating Black Artists for Black History Month: Kara Walker12 January 2022 | Artland Magazine
Kara Walker: Reflecting on a Legacy of Violence – Bio & Art14 December 2021 | The Art Newspaper
Richard Serra, Kara Walker and other artists urged the Met to remove Sackler name
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Kara Walker
I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $9,450
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Kara Walker
Boo-hoo (P. 59)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $25,200
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Kara Walker
The Bush; Skinny; and De-boning
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $5,670
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Kara Walker
Emancipation Approximation: Scene 9
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $12,222
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Kara Walker
Freedom, a Fable
Estimate $1,500 - 2,000
Sold for $3,024
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Kara Walker
Untitled
Estimate $7,000 - 10,000
Sold for $20,160
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Kara Walker
Snared
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $11,340
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Kara Walker
Cotton (L.P. KW-96-05A)
Estimate $1,500 - 2,500
Sold for $21,420
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Kara Walker
Untitled
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $32,760
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134
Kara Walker
Pocketwatch, scene No. 5 from The Emancipation Approximation
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
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Kara Walker
Emancipation Approximation: Scenes 5; 9; 15; 18; and 26
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
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Kara Walker
The Keys to the Coop
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $31,500
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Kara Walker
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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Kara Walker
Up Frum Slubbery
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £18,900
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Kara Walker
The Emancipation Approximation (scene #18)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $30,240
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222
Kara Walker
Banks's Army Leaving Simmsport, from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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223
Kara Walker
Deadbrook After the Battle of Ezra's Church, from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
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224
Kara Walker
Testimony Suite
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $10,080
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222
Kara Walker
The Bush; Skinny; and De-boning (three sculptures)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $12,500
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Kara Walker
Freedom, A Fable
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $2,125
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Kara Walker
Forging Freedoms
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $65,000
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131
Kara Walker
Untitled
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £25,000
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Kara Walker
Untitled
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £20,000
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