Artprice 289 0 Kommentare Top 20 Photographers by 2018 Auction Turnover

PARIS, February 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --

In its series of art market rankings designed to highlight some of its key trends, this week, artprice take a look at the photography market at auction.

thierry Ehrmann: "The photography market represents just 1.7% of global Fine Art auction turnover, and 3% of the total number of Fine Art lots sold. But it has very interesting specificities that distinguish it from other Fine Art segments, starting with the fact that it is strongly dominated by Contemporary Art. Somewhat unusually, the figurehead of this market is, this year again, a woman, and an artist at the height of her art... Cindy Sherman".

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1. Cindy Sherman (1954) - United States
$6,737,871

With 18 lots already auctioned above the $1 million threshold, Cindy Sherman is one of the three unmissable artists in today's photography market. The prices of her photos have been gradually rising since 2012 and her market is particularly liquid with more than 60 photographs selling at auction per year and an unsold rate of just 20%.

2. Richard Prince (1949) - US
$6,504,718

3. Andreas Gursky (1955) - Germany
$5,147,708

4. Wolfgang Tillmans (1968) - Germany
$4,947,645

Single edition photographs from Tillmans' series Freischwimmer Einzelgänger and Greifber have been hugely successful over the last two years in auction rooms and now fetch over $600,000. Yet more than 60% of his photos still sell for under $50,000 at auction. Wolfgang Tillmans was discovered by the general public in 2000 after winning the Turner Prize. In 2017, he was offered a retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel.

5. Irving Penn (1917-2009) - United States
$3,940,908

6. Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) - United States
$3,433,837

7. Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948) - Japan
$3,277,496

While the United States largely dominates the photography market, Germany, Japan and France are still very attached to this medium. Hiroshi Sugimoto has been the most successful Japanese photographer on the secondary market for the last 15 years. His maritime horizons - photographed all over the planet - form his most accomplished works and the works most appreciated by collectors. His major photos, in five editions, today fetch over $300,000.