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Invaluable 1,000™

This list of the 1,000 most acclaimed artists in the auction market was created from the Artist Database, and is organized by art categories.

Please choose a category below to go to affiliated artist pages and find biographies and works available for sale at forthcoming auctions.


Abstract Expressionism
American Impressionism
American Painting: 18th/19th Century
American Painting: 20th Century
Asian Artists
Barbizon
Baroque Era Painting
British Artists
Canadian Artists
Contemporary Art
European Academic Painting
European Artists: 18th and 19th Centuries
European Impressionism

Expressionism
Folk Art
High Baroque Painting
Hudson River School
Illustrators
Indian Artists
Latin American Artists
Marine Painting
Modernism: American
Modernism: European
Orientalism
Other Important Artists
Photography: 19th Century

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Photography: 20th Century
Photography: Contemporary
Pop Art
Post Impressionism
Realism: 20th Century
Renaissance Painting
Romanticism
Russian Artists
Sculptors: American
Sculptors: European
Sporting Artists
Still Life Painting
Surrealism
Victorian Painting

Contemporary Art:

 Vito Acconci  Luis Cruz Azaceta  Donald Baechler  Matthew Barney  Jennifer Losch Bartlett  Georg Baselitz  Jean-Michel Basquiat  Ross Bleckner  Mel Bochner  Christian Boltanski  Jonathan Borofsky  Cecily Brown  Chris Burden  Maurizio Cattelan  Sandro Chia  Christo  Francesco Clemente  George Condo  Enzo Cucchi  Peter Doig  Tracey Emin  Eric Fischl  Dan Flavin  Tom Friedman  Robert Gober  Felix Gonzalez-Torres  Ann Hamilton  Jenny Holzer  Anish Kapoor  Mike Kelley

 Anselm Kiefer  Martin Kippenberger  Jeff Koons  Barbara Kruger  Maya Lin  Robert Peter Mangold  Brice Marden  Takashi Murakami  Elizabeth Heaphy Murray  Yoshitomo Nara  Bruce Nauman  Mimmo Paladino  A. R Penck  Raymond Pettibon  Jack Pierson  Sigmar Polke  Arnaldo Pomodoro  Arnulf Rainer  Gerhard Richter  Susan Rothenberg  Edward Ruscha  Robert Ryman  David Salle  Julian Schnabel  Kiki Smith  Pat Steir  Bill Viola  Kara Walker  Sue Williams  Christopher Wool