Post-War Art
The post-war era of art history, spanning roughly 1945 to 1970, includes some of the most iconic and sought-after art movements of the 20th century, including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism. Leading the high end of the market, the most expensive post-war paintings ever sold at auction include Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud (1969) at $142 million, Andy Warhol’s Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963) at $105 million, and Willem De Kooning’s Woman as Landscape (1955) at $69 million.
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Meditative Color Field CanvasesFrom $15,000“Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s …
Post-War PrintsFrom $2,500In the 1950s and ’60s, printmaking experienced a bonafide renaissance, especially in the United …
Post-War Women ArtistsFrom $5,000From Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism, many of the prominent post-war art movements seemed to …
![Henry Botkin, ‘[Abstraction in Red and Green]’, ca. 1958](http://web.archive.org./web/20210520102815im_/https://d7hftxdivxxvm.cloudfront.net/?resize_to=fit&width=400&height=363&quality=80&src=https%3A%2F%2Fd32dm0rphc51dk.cloudfront.net%2FMGCcM2PFEbwEgzDSdylxTA%2Flarge.jpg "[Abstraction in Red and Green]")
