Paula Modersohn-Becker:
Ich bin Ich/I Am Me an exhibition at the Neue Galerie, New York City, June 6–September 9, 2024, and the Art Institute of Chicago, October 12, 2024–January 12, 2025. Catalog of the exhibition edited by Jay A. Clarke and Jill Lloyd. Prestel, 205 pp., $50.00
At the auction houses the predatory collectors come and go, talking of resale prices high and low. How much can you get for current favorites—Cecily Brown? Mickalene Thomas?—or for early Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden? And what about all the women artists whose work, once overlooked, is enjoying a revival, suddenly seen in a new, brighter—and inevitably more commodified—light: Hilma af Klint, Alice Neel, or Leonora Carrington, whose painting Les Distractions de Dagobert (1945) sold for $28.5 million at Sotheby’s in May?…
