Vanessa Beecroft — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works75

Museum Acquisitions

8 Institutions

MoMA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Art Institute of Chicago

Milwaukee Art Museum

LACMA

MOCA Los Angeles

Previous Sales 35

Sotheby's

VB26.021

€13,000 ($14k USD)

Nov 2022

Sotheby's

Untitled (Portrait of a woman), 1999

Christie's

Christie's

Los Angeles Modern Auctions

Vogue Hommes

$990

Jan 1970

Rago Arts and Auction Center

Performance Detail - CAPC Bordeaux

$1,834

Jan 1970

Christie's

VB35, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY 1998, 1998

$37,800

Feb 2025

Sotheby's

Untitled (Two Seated Girls, Miu Miu, NY), 1997

$957

Oct 2023

Christie's

VB35 (Performance 1998, Show, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum NY - U.S.A.), 1998

$10,080

Jul 2023

Bonhams

VB47.364.DR, 2001, 2004

Sotheby's

Phillips

VB43.068.ali (Panoramic), 2000

$17,780

Mar 2023

Sotheby's

Performance Period, 2023 (from VB61 "Still Death! Still Deaf?, Venice, Italy, 2007), 2023

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

VB 48, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa Italy, 2001

$16,380

Dec 2022

Sotheby's

VB 16 (Performance Detail - Deitch Projects, New York, 1996), 1996

Sotheby's

Christie's

VB58 Performance Miami Push Button House, 2005, 2008

$11,991

Nov 2022

Christie's

Performance Spiral Wacoal Art Center Tokyo, Japan, VB 37, 1999

Sotheby's

Phillips

VB08; VB35; VB16; VB39; and VB39 (P. 56)

Sotheby's

Dorotheum

VB52.04, Performance Castello di Rivoli, 2003

$44,195

May 2025

Swann Auction Galleries

VB 1,1996, Deitch Projects, New York (Woman's Face), 1996

Artsy

For Sale 7

Lia Rumma · Artsy

Lia Rumma · Artsy

Lia Rumma · Artsy

Rosenbaum Contemporary · Artsy

Vb62.028.nt Santa Maria dello Spasimo, Palermo, Italy, 2008

DTTH Gallery · Artsy

Lia Rumma · Artsy

Lia Rumma · Artsy

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Market592 auction results

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$957 – $44.2K

8 of 11 photographs lots with prices

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$13.0K

Object-type specific

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$14.2K

8 priced photographs lots

calendar_todayLast Photographs Sale

May 2025 · $44.2K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Photographs: $14.2K medianSculpture/objects: $16.4K medianPaintings: $4.3K medianWorks on paper: $1.2K medianUnclassified lots: $9.4K medianEditioned photos: $14.3K medianEditioned prints: $4.3K medianBooks/portfolios: — median

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Galleries3

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Education2

Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia

Venice, Italy

Cranbrook Academy of Art

Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

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Publications5

Monograph 2

VB 08-36 Author

Hatje Cantz · 2000

Vanessa Beecroft: Fotografien, Filme, Zeichnungen

Hatje Cantz

Exhibition Catalog 3

Vanessa Beecroft Author

Hatje Cantz · 2007

Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings

Hatje Cantz · 2004

Vanessa Beecroft Author

Rizzoli · 2003

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Current Exhibitions0

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Recent News12

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