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Selected Works194

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney
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Met
NGA Washington
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NGA Washington
SFMOMA
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Hammer Museum
Hammer Museum
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Seattle Art Museum
Seattle Art Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Yale Center for British Art

Previous Sales 157

Christie's
Bedlam Vacation
Bedlam Vacation, 2005
$5,931,000
May 2026
Christie's
Mean Eyed Cat
Mean Eyed Cat, 2012
£1,016,000 ($1.3M USD)
Mar 2026
Sotheby's
High Society
High Society, 1997
$9,810,000
Nov 2025
Christie's
It's not yesterday anymore
It's not yesterday anymore, 2022
Bought In
Nov 2025
Sotheby's
Untitled
Untitled, 2006
£68,296 ($68k USD)
Oct 2025
Sotheby's
Burkini Kill
Burkini Kill, 2016
Unknown
May 2025
Christie's
Bedtime Story
Bedtime Story, 1999
$6,221,000
May 2025
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 2004
£56,700 ($75k USD)
Mar 2025
Christie's
The Butcher and the Policeman
The Butcher and the Policeman, 2013
$5,979,000
Nov 2024
Sotheby's
Satan's Waitin'
Satan's Waitin', 2008
£1,005,993 ($1.0M USD)
Oct 2024
Christie's
The Skin of Our Teeth
The Skin of Our Teeth, 1999
£3,065,000 ($4.0M USD)
Oct 2024
Christie's
The Fox and Geese
The Fox and Geese, 2008
$1,020,600
May 2024
Sotheby's
Functor Hideaway
Functor Hideaway, 2008
$3,569,000
May 2024
Christie's
Can Can
Can Can, 1998
£2,218,000 ($2.9M USD)
Mar 2024
Christie's
Figures in a Garden
Figures in a Garden, 2003
$2,712,000
Nov 2023
Sotheby's
Tricky
Tricky, 2001
£3,240,017 ($3.2M USD)
Oct 2023
Christie's
Kiss Me Stupid
Kiss Me Stupid, 1999
£3,549,000 ($4.7M USD)
Jun 2023
Sotheby's
Free Games for May
Free Games for May, 2015
$6,711,450
May 2023
Christie's
Untitled (The Beautiful and Damned)
Untitled (The Beautiful and Damned), 2013
$6,705,000
May 2023
Christie's
Untitled (#45)
Untitled (#45), 2007
$806,400
May 2023
Christie's
Untitled
Untitled, 2006
$604,800
May 2023
Christie's
The querulous mew
The querulous mew, 2022
$346,500
Mar 2023
Sotheby's
Running Scared
Running Scared, 2010
$2,601,000
Mar 2023
Sotheby's
The Nymphs Have Departed
The Nymphs Have Departed, 2014
£4,134,519 ($4.1M USD)
Mar 2023
Christie's
Make it Rain
Make it Rain, 2014
£4,242,000 ($5.6M USD)
Feb 2023

Upcoming Auctions 1

Christie's
The Haunter
The Haunter, 2010
Est. £2,200,000–£2,800,000
Jun 25, 2026
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Market430 auction results

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$6.1K – $9.8M
141 of 152 paintings lots with prices
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$1.8M
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$1.1M
141 priced paintings lots
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May 2026 · $5.9M
Latest tracked sale in this object type
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Paintings: $1.1M medianWorks on paper: $30.5K medianPhotographs: $2.2K medianEditioned prints: $2.7K medianPosters/ephemera: $8.9K medianEditioned objects: $1.0K medianUnclassified lots: $1.1M median
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Galleries4

#12 Gladstone
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#33 Joni Moisant Weyl
#40 Two Palms
Instagram
#47 Paula Cooper Gallery
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Education4

Epsom School Art
, 1987
Morley College 89
, 1987
Massey University (College of Creative Arts)
Wellington, New Zealand
Slade School of Fine Art (UCL)
London, UK
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Publications13

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Monograph 2

Cecily Brown Author
Yale University Press · 2023
Cecily Brown
Phaidon Press · 2020

Exhibition Catalog 2

Cecily Brown Author
Rizzoli · 2011
CECILY BROWN: PAINTINGS; ED. BY SUZANNE COTTER
MoMA Publications · 2005

Group Catalog 1

Collecting Contemporaries: The Fuhrman Collection
Phaidon Press

Survey 8

How Painting Happens: and why it matters
Thames & Hudson · 2024
The Art Book (Mini Format)
Phaidon Press · 2024
Great Women Painters
Phaidon Press · 2022
Contemporary Painting (World of Art)
Thames & Hudson · 2021
Women Artists: The Linda Nochlin Reader
Thames & Hudson · 2020
100 Painters of Tomorrow
Thames & Hudson · 2019
Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism
Thames & Hudson · 2019
Painting People: The State of the Art
Thames & Hudson · 2008
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Current Exhibitions2

#2,477 Messums London

Cecily Brown: Picture Making

Cecily Brown

28 Cork St, London W1S 3NG, United Kingdom

Mar 27, 2026 — Jun 25, 2026

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#2,291 Mazzoleni

Cecily Brown: Picture Making

Cecily Brown

15, Old, Bond St, London W1S 4AX, United Kingdom

Mar 27, 2026 — Jun 25, 2026

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Recent News20

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A First Look at the Big-Ticket Artworks that Galleries Are Bringing to Art Basel 2026
ARTnews previews the high-value artworks that galleries are bringing to Art Basel 2026 in Basel, Switzerland. The fair introduces a new opt-in program…
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Max Beckmann’s granddaughter on living with his paintings — and the artist’s love of cartwheels
The article features an interview with Max Beckmann's granddaughter, who shares personal memories of growing up surrounded by his paintings and reveal…
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Two of the Biggest Names in American Patronage Have Kept Their Homes Private—Until Now
Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman, prominent American philanthropists and art collectors, have opened their private Hamptons home to the public for the first t…
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$3.7 million Cecily Brown painting to lead upcoming Christie’s London sale.
Cecily Brown's painting *The Haunter* (2010) will lead Christie's Post-War to Present sale in London on June 25th, with an estimate of £2.2 million–£2…
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Phillips’ Evening Sale of Modern & Contemporary Art achieved a total that more than doubled the previous year's auction result, driven by strong deman…
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Sold-out Phillips auction in New York brings in $115.2m, more than double 2025 result
Phillips’s marquee spring auction in New York achieved a sold-out result, bringing in $91.73 million hammer ($115.2 million with fees), more than doub…
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‘The story can be almost as important as the piece itself’: philanthropist Christian Levett on his approach to collecting
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The Tuscan hill town of Monte San Savino launched a contemporary art exhibition titled "Art Gender Gap" on International Women's Day, featuring 40 fem…
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Tefaf New York wishlist: a Tiffany window and an Egyptian goddess with a nose job
The article highlights three standout artworks being offered at Tefaf New York. A Tiffany Studios stained-glass window, "Birches and Irises" (around 1…
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Past Exhibitions14

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#33 Joni Moisant Weyl

The Paula Cooper Effect

Cecily Brown, Elizabeth Murray, Claes Oldenburg, Mark di Suvero, Jonathan Borofsky, Sophie Calle, Robert Gober

535 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

Mar 5, 2026 — May 22, 2026

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Barnes Museum

Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations

Cecily Brown

Jan 1, 2025

Exhibition Cecily Brown: Themes and Variations March 9 – May 25, 2025 Surveying three decades of the British painter’s career.

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#47 Paula Cooper Gallery

Cecily Brown The 5 Senses

Cecily Brown

534 W 21st St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Oct 24, 2024 — Dec 14, 2024

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Glenstone Museum

Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown

Feb 2, 2023 — Apr 16, 2023

Cecily Brown Feb 02, 2023 - Apr 16, 2023 Pavilions, Passage

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#16 Thomas Dane Gallery

Cecily Brown: Studio Pictures

Cecily Brown

3 and 11 Duke Street St James's, London SW1Y 6BN, United Kingdom

Oct 11, 2022 — Dec 17, 2022

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Albertina

Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown. From the Collections of the Albertina Museum

Andy Warhol, Cecily Brown

Albertinapl. 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

Jan 1, 2021 — Jan 1, 2022

Andy Warhol, Cecily Brown — 12 December 2021 – 20 February 2022

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#47 Paula Cooper Gallery

Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown

534 W 21st St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Oct 15, 2020 — Dec 12, 2020

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#16 Thomas Dane Gallery

Cecily Brown: We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

Cecily Brown

Mar 16, 2019 — Jun 14, 2019

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#47 Paula Cooper Gallery

Cecily Brown A Day! Help! Help! Another Day!

Cecily Brown

534 W 21st St, New York, NY 10011, USA

Oct 27, 2017 — Dec 2, 2017

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#16 Thomas Dane Gallery

Cecily Brown: Madrepora

3 and 11 Duke Street St James's, London SW1Y 6BN, United Kingdom

Jun 11, 2016 — Jul 23, 2016

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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cecily Brown

Cecily Brown

465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Oct 18, 2006 — Jan 15, 2007

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Albertina

Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown. From the Collections of the Albertina Museum

Andy Warhol, Cecily Brown

Albertinapl. 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

Jan 1, 2022

Andy Warhol, Cecily Brown — 20 February 2022

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#40 Two Palms

Cecily Brown: The Calls of the Hunting Horn

Cecily Brown

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#40 Two Palms

Cecily Brown: New Editions

Cecily Brown

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Art Fair Appearances4

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TEFAF New York — New York
2026
Frieze New York — New York
2025
The Armory Show — New York
2025
The Armory Show — New York
2024
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Cecily Brown: The Calls of the Hunting Horn
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Nicolas Africano: Themes and Variations
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Andy Warhol to Cecily Brown. From the Collections of the Albertina Museum
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May 21, 2026
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May 20, 2026
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May 20, 2026
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May 18, 2026
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May 15, 2026
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May 15, 2026
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May 14, 2026
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May 13, 2026
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May 8, 2026
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Your guide to Christie's 20/21 auction week in New York
May 7, 2026
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Chiara Camoni, “Con te con tutto” (With You, With Everything)—Italian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale: Chiara Camoni, Cecilia Canziani, and Alessandro Rabottini in Conversation
May 7, 2026
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