artist

Martin Puryear

United States (b. 1941)

artist profile

Martin Puryear is a major contemporary artist.

artworks sold in major auction houses

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artworks displayed in major art fairs

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news presence

total artworks

90

currently for sale

33

Latest News

3 months ago

The Art Newspaper

Chicana muralist Judith Baca receives National Medal of Arts in White House ceremony

...James Turrell (in 2013), Ellsworth Kelly (in 2012), Martin Puryear (in 2011), Mark di Suvero (in 2010), Maya...

3 months ago

Artforum

Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, by Tina Post. New York, NYU Press, 2023. 280 pages.PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW ME often tell me I look fairly blank. It comes out in a swarm of ways. "I can't read you," someone who wanted to fuck informed me. (We didn't make it to bed.) "She's so serious," a retail worker said, addressing the white person next to me. (I didn't buy anything.) "She's so boring" is another one I've gotten, mostly behind my back. (I'm a professor who doesn't drink or do drugs anymore, so I'll ungrudgingly admit to that—maybe too quickly.) "Well, what do you think?" is a

...work of David Hammons, Morris, Adrian Piper, and Martin Puryear, Post shows how deadpan can encompass not only...

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		year	title	size	last public price		date		dealer	status
		1989	Untitled	XL	Sold1,805,000 USD Estimation600,000 – 800,000 USD	on	May 13, 2014	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1983	Fraught	L	Sold907,500 USD Estimation600,000 – 800,000 USD	on	Nov 15, 2016	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1982	Thylacine	L	Sold713,000 USD Estimation600,000 – 800,000 USD	on	Nov 14, 2007	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1987	Empire's Lurch	L	Sold687,500 USD Estimation500,000 – 700,000 USD	on	May 13, 2021	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1987	Sharp and Flat	XL	Sold672,500 USD Estimation250,000 – 350,000 USD	on	Nov 15, 2018	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1976	Stripling	XL	Sold665,000 USD Estimation800,000 – 1,200,000 USD	on	Nov 13, 2014	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1997	Hero	L	Sold663,750 USD Estimation200,000 – 300,000 USD	on	May 16, 2013	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		2008	Untitled	M	500,001 – 750,000 USD	in	Oct 2022	by	Matthew Marks Gallery	Dealer Price
		2008	Untitled	M	Sold475,000 USD Estimation400,000 – 600,000 USD	on	Nov 14, 2019	at	Phillips	Auction Sold
		2011	Heaven Three Ways/Exquisite Corpse	L	Sold432,500 USD Estimation350,000 – 550,000 USD	on	Nov 16, 2017	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1993 - 1995	HIS EMINENCE	XL	Sold286,000 USD Estimation200,000 – 300,000 USD	on	Sep 29, 2016	at	Sotheby's	Auction Sold
		-	Untitled (Falcon)	M	Sold197,000 USD Estimation150,000 – 200,000 USD	on	Nov 13, 2013	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		1993	Hand	S	Sold22,500 USD Estimation10,000 – 15,000 USD	on	Jul 18, 2018	at	Christie's	Auction Sold
		2000Edition	Cane	M	22,000 USD	in	Sep 2022	by	Matthew Marks Gallery	Dealer Price
		1974	Untitled	L	Sold20,160 USD Estimation5,000 – 7,000 USD	on	Mar 3, 2021	at	Phillips	Auction Sold