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Bloomberg ranked the top 20 women visual artists based on sales of works from January 1, 1985, through June 30, 2014.
Sales include buyers' premiums. Dual-nationality artists, or those who spent their working life in one country and were born in another, are noted with their birthplace listed last. The percentage change in total sales from 2009 through 2013, is also shown, to track sales from a year after the start of the financial crisis. Artworks include paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, works on paper, installations and designs.
Artnet
July 7, 2014
Rank | Artist | All-time sales | Lots sold | Change in sales 2009 to 2013 | Year born-died | Nationality |
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1 | Joan Mitchell | $293.3M | 688 | 189.7% | 1925-1992 | American |
2 | Yayoi Kusama t | $165.3M | 2,935 | 226.9% | 1929- | Japanese |
3 | Mary Cassatt | $137.8M | 1,149 | -70.7% | 1844-1926 | American |
4 | Agnes Martin | $132.4M | 262 | 599.2% | 1912-2004 | American/Canadian |
5 | Georgia O'Keeffe | $123.2M | 147 | 38,611.9% | 1887-1986 | American |
6 | Tamara de Lempicka | $121.6M | 457 | -92.4% | 1898-1980 | Polish |
7 | Louise Bourgeois | $115.0M | 531 | 505.8% | 1911-2010 | American/French |
8 | Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova | $113.9M | 889 | -16.8% | 1881-1962 | Russian |
9 | Cindy Sherman t | $105.5M | 1,328 | 498.7% | 1954- | American |
10 | Marie Laurencin | $101.9M | 3,550 | 158.2% | 1885-1956 | French |
11 | Irma Stern | $91.3M | 499 | 18.2% | 1894-1966 | South African |
12 | Berthe Morisot | $86.9M | 384 | 988.6% | 1841-1895 | French |
13 | Barbara Hepworth | $84.8M | 735 | 323.6% | 1903-1975 | British |
14 | Maria Helena Vieira da Silva | $65.6M | 964 | 173.7% | 1908-1992 | French |
15 | Zhou Sicong | $64.5M | 945 | 624.8% | 1939-1996 | Chinese |
16 | Eileen Gray | $60.8M | 142 | -99.5% | 1879-1976 | Irish |
17 | Niki de Saint Phalle | $60.1M | 2,269 | 19.7% | 1930-2002 | French |
18 | Marlene Dumas t | $60.0M | 444 | 455.2% | 1953- | South African |
19 | Gabriele Münter | $58.6M | 564 | 38.1% | 1877-1962 | German |
20 | Bridget Riley t | $56.7M | 748 | 467.9% | 1931- | British |