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Barbara Ess

American · 1944–2021 · Photographer

American photographer and sound artist

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8lots offered2021–2025years recorded86%sold (6)$815Sign up free to seemedian price

Record prices

  1. Barbara Ess, Untitled (from the Food for the Moon series), 1986, monochrome color photograph mounted to MasoniteUntitled (from the Food for the Moon series)Rago Auctions · $5,850≈ £4,414≈ €5,194Sign up to see
  2. Barbara Ess, Untitled, 1987, monochrome color photograph mounted to SintraUntitledWright · $2,227≈ £1,758≈ €2,059Sign up to see
  3. Barbara Ess, Untitled, 1983, monochrome color photographUntitledRago Auctions · $1,000≈ £828≈ €959Sign up to see

Barbara Ess’s highest prices recorded at auction, ranked in US dollars at each sale-date exchange rate and shown in the currency of the sale (with the buyer’s premium where the house publishes it).

American photographer and sound artist

Born 1944, BrooklynDied 2021, New York CityOccupation PhotographerWikidata Q16124015 ↗ULAN 500086231 ↗

In the collections of

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Art Institute of ChicagoGroninger MuseumMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaSmithsonian American Art Museum

Museum representation from open data (Wikidata, museum collection datasets); links go to the museum or its collection record.

Also known as B. Ess, Barbara E. Ess

Artist record compiled from: Wikidata (CC0), Getty ULAN (ODC-By), Art Institute of Chicago API (CC0), MoMA collection data (CC0). See data sources & attribution.

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