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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
16 March 2021 | My Modern Met
5 Kara Walker Artworks That Tell Historic Stories of African American Lives2 March 2021 | Harvard Art Museums
Mar 10, 07:00 - (Re)Define the Landscape: Howardena Pindell, Kara Walker, and Kerry James Marshall18 February 2021 | Cool Hunting
Kara Walker: A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be4 February 2021 | Ocula
Matthew Barney and Kara Walker Join Upcoming Frieze Festival27 January 2021 | Artnet
Art Industry News: FKA Twigs’s New Music Video Stars That Epic Monumental Fountain Sculpture by Kara Walker + Other Stories
Upcoming Lots
Kara Walker
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
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A Means to An End... A Shadow Drama in Five Acts (L. P. p. 216, fig. 85)
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Past Lots
Kara Walker
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
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
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
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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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Freedom: a Fable
Estimate $1,800 - 2,400
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Untitled (Canisters)
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $12,500
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Sampler I Booty Call
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
Sold for $264,000
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O! The Pathos of Black Womanhood
Estimate £45,000 - 65,000
Sold for £93,750
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Freedom, A Fable
Estimate £1,200 - 1,800
Sold for £1,375
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Freedom: a Fable
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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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