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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
26 May 2020 | Frieze
Kara Walker on the Post-Lockdown World2 May 2020 | Riot Material
A Gathering Of Ruins: Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus15 April 2020 | Architectural Digest
Kara Walker’s Fountain at the Tate Modern to Be Destroyed10 April 2020 | ARTnews
8 Essential Artist-Directed Music Videos by Andy Warhol, Kara Walker, and More9 April 2020 | The Art Newspaper
Kara Walker’s celebrated Tate fountain—closed to the public early due to coronavirus—will be destroyed
Past Lots
Kara Walker
Freedom, A Fable
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $2,125
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Forging Freedoms
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $65,000
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Untitled
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £25,000
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Untitled
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £20,000
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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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Kara Walker
Freedom: a Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
Sold for $2,250
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Kara Walker
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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Kara Walker
Freedom, A Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
Sold for $3,750
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Kara Walker
Freedom: a Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
Sold for $2,750
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Kara Walker
Untitled (Canisters)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $12,500
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Kara Walker
Sampler I Booty Call
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
Sold for $264,000
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Kara Walker
O! The Pathos of Black Womanhood
Estimate £45,000 - 65,000
Sold for £93,750
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Kara Walker
Freedom, A Fable
Estimate £1,200 - 1,800
Sold for £1,375
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Kara Walker
Freedom: a Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
Sold for $4,375
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I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
Estimate $6,000 - 9,000
Sold for $8,125
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Kara Walker
The Bush; Skinny; and De-boning
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $6,875
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Forging Freedoms
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £25,000
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Kara Walker
Untitled
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $21,250
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Kara Walker
Freedom, A Fable
Estimate £1,200 - 1,800
Sold for £2,750
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Kara Walker
Testimony Suite
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
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Kara Walker
Freedom: A Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
Sold for $3,000
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