David Shapiro — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works71

Museum Acquisitions

19 Institutions

MoMA

NGA Washington

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

SFMOMA

Cleveland Museum of Art

Hammer Museum

Fogg Museum

Princeton University Art Museum

Cincinnati Art Museum

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Yale University Art Gallery

High Museum

Crystal Bridges

Georgia Museum of Art

Previous Sales 5

Christie's

Subtle Body

$960

Aug 2006

Swann Auction Galleries

Clearing I.

Bought In

Nov 2025

Waddington's

Seer Actor Knower Doer 67, 2005

CA$4,500 ($3k USD)

Oct 2019

Rago Arts and Auction Center

The Poignancy of Things VII

$2,358

Jan 1970

Rago/Wright/LAMA/Toomey & Co. · Artsy

The Poignancy of Things VII, 1978

Bidding closed

Acrylic and collage in artist-made frame

For Sale 4

michael lisi / contemporary art · Artsy

Clearing, 1988

US$1,285

Mixed media etching with collage on hand-made paper

RoGallery · Artsy

Birnham Wood V, 1981

US$1,850

Monoprint with embossing on handmade paper

Lincoln Glenn · Artsy

Twice told tale (23), 1984

US$25,000

Oil on canvas

Lincoln Glenn · Artsy

Twice Told Tale (3), 1983

US$25,000

Oil on canvas

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Market31 auction results

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$960 – $3.4K

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$2.2K

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$2.4K

3 priced paintings lots

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Oct 2019 · $3.4K

Latest priced sale: Seer Actor Knower Doer 67

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Paintings: $2.4K medianEditioned prints: $275 median

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Armstrong Fine ArtWaddington'sLos Angeles Modern AuctionsSwann Auction Galleries

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Publications1

Monograph 1

Mondrian Author

Abrams · 1991

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Current Exhibitions0

No current exhibitions found.

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Recent News4

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Past Exhibitions5

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Alpha 137 Gallery

Landscapes, Cityscapes, Waterscapes and Skyscapes: paintings, works on paper and prints

Helen Frankenthaler, Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Wolf Kahn, Peter Saul, Marsden Hartley, Paul Resika, Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Alex Katz, Richard Estes, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, FAILE, Mark di Suvero, Allan D'Arcangelo, Jennifer Losch Bartlett, Peter Blake, Christo, Peter Max, Sonia Gechtoff, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Martin Creed, Jonas Wood, Gregory Amenoff, Joe Brainard, Red Grooms, Billy Al Bengston, April Gornik, Gerald Laing, Paula Scher, Michael Lekakis, Paul Feeley, William T. Wiley, John Button, Hyde Solomon, Howard Kanovitz, George Trakas, Asa Cheffetz, Lynton Wells, Milton Glaser, Bob Stanley, Walter Darby Bannard, Katherine Porter, Lois Dodd, Richard Haas, Thelma Appel, Alan Cote, Norman Carton, Ben Wilson, Edward Giobbi, Franz Eggenschwiler, Javacheff Christo, David Shapiro (b. 1922), Kathan Brown, William Waitzman, Helen Siegl

Showplace Design and Antique Center, 40 W 25th St 2nd floor, New York, NY 10010, United States

Mar 12, 2026 — May 27, 2026

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